A common misinterpretation of this verse arises from taking it out of its psalmic context as a historical recount of the eighth plague on Egypt, where locusts devastated Egyptian crops as divine judgment, leading some to wrongly apply it as a general curse on all lands or modern agriculture; others confuse "their land" as Israel's rather than Egypt's, missing the psalm's praise of God's protection for His people while punishing oppressors, or stretch it into end-times prophecy akin to Revelation's locusts, ignoring its retrospective celebration of Exodus deliverance rather than futuristic prediction.
Psalms 105:35
King James Version (1769)
35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
Psalms 105:35 describes the devastating plague of locusts God sent upon Egypt as part of His judgments to secure Israel's exodus, illustrating the core truth of divine sovereignty in wielding creation itself—here, ravenous insects—to humble oppressive nations and fulfill His covenant promises to protect and deliver His people from bondage, showing that no earthly power can withstand His righteous intervention when He acts on behalf of the faithful.