2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country.
2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
2 But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs.
2 If you refuse to release them, I'm warning you, I'll hit the whole country with frogs.
2 But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all your territory with frogs.
2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs across your entire land.
17 It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
17 You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.
17 You laid out the four corners of earth, shaped the seasons of summer and winter.
17 You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter.
17 You set the boundaries of the earth, and you made both summer and winter.
(Read Psalm 74:12-17)
The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to expect affliction, as to expect night and winter. But we have no more reason to despair of the return of comfort, than to despair of day and summer. And in the world above we shall have no more changes.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 8:2
Commentary on Exodus 8:1-15
(Read Exodus 8:1-15)
Pharaoh is plagued with frogs; their vast numbers made them sore plagues to the Egyptians. God could have plagued Egypt with lions, or bears, or wolves, or with birds of prey, but he chose to do it by these despicable creatures. God, when he pleases, can arm the smallest parts of the creation against us. He thereby humbled Pharaoh. They should neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep in quiet; but wherever they were, they should be troubled by the frogs. God's curse upon a man will pursue him wherever he goes, and lie heavy upon him whatever he does. Pharaoh gave way under this plague. He promises that he will let the people go. Those who bid defiance to God and prayer, first or last, will be made to see their need of both. But when Pharaoh saw there was respite, he hardened his heart. Till the heart is renewed by the grace of God, the thoughts made by affliction do not abide; the convictions wear off, and the promises that were given are forgotten. Till the state of the air is changed, what thaws in the sun will freeze again in the shade.