He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
The psalm in which the ruin of vines and sycamores appears rehearses the rich blessings God bestowed upon Israel and sets against them the people's poor return for all those benefits. In that history Israel is seen constantly working against a good God. The smiting of vine and sycamore was rebuke and chastisement brought upon themselves by their own disobedience, coming as the sure result of the course they had chosen. Under that rebuke they repented, yet afterward they fell again when pressed by temptation and drawn by self-indulgence and self-gratification.
The psalm in which the ruin of vines and sycamores appears rehearses the rich blessings God bestowed upon Israel and sets against them the people's poor return for all those benefits. In that history Israel is seen constantly working against a good God. The smiting of vine and sycamore was rebuke and chastisement brought upon themselves by their own disobedience, coming as the sure result of the course they had chosen. Under that rebuke they repented, yet afterward they fell again when pressed by temptation and drawn by self-indulgence and self-gratification.