Psalms 105:35
They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
BSB
ASV
And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground.
KJV
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
Did eat up all the herbs. The locusts had devoured every green herb and every blade of grass; and had it not been for the reeds, on which our cattle entirely subsisted while we skirted the banks of the river, the journey must have been discontinued, at least in the line that had been proposed. The larvae, as generally is the case in this class of nature, are much more voracious than the perfect insect; nothing that is green seems to come amiss to them.
Or, rather, the "darkness" here is figurative (Jer 13:16), the literal plague of darkness (Ex 10:22, 23) being only alluded to as the symbol of God's wrath which overhung Egypt as a dark cloud during all the plagues. Hence, it is placed first, out of the historical order. Thus, "They rebelled not (that is, no longer) against His word," refers to the Egyptians.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.