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Psalms 78:49
49He sent his burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity — a band of deadly messengers.
Psalms 78:49 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
- New International Version (NIV)He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, By sending angels of destruction among them.
Context of Psalms 78:49
47He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood. 48He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts. He sent his burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity — a band of deadly messengers. 50He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague. 51He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.
Read all of Psalms 78Psalms 78:49 word by word
יְשַׁלַּח־בָּ֨ם׀ חֲר֬וֹן אַפּ֗וֹ עֶבְרָ֣ה וָזַ֣עַם וְצָרָ֑ה מִ֝שְׁלַ֗חַת מַלְאֲכֵ֥י רָעִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- He castשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: let goH7971
- upon them the fiercenessחָרוֹןchârôn chârôn · burning angerH2740
- of his angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
- wrathעֶבְרָה‛ebrâh · furyH5678
- and indignationזַ֫עַםza‛am · indignationH2195
- and troubleצָרָהtsârâh · distressH6869
- by sendingמִשְׁלַ֫חַתmishlachath · deputationH4917
- evilרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: harmfulH7451
- angelsמַלְאָךְmal'âk · messenger: angelH4397
Cross-references for Psalms 78:49
- Psalms 11:6Let him rain burning coals and sulfur on the wicked; let a scorching wind be the portion in their cup.
- Job 20:23When he fills his stomach, God will send his burning anger against him, raining it down on him while he is eating.
- Isaiah 42:25So he poured out his furious anger and the power of war on Jacob. It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it; it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.
- Lamentations 4:11The Lord has exhausted his wrath, poured out his burning anger; he has ignited a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
- Zephaniah 3:8Therefore, wait for me — this is the Lord’s declaration — until the day I rise up for plunder. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, in order to pour out my indignation on them, all my burning anger; for the whole earth will be consumed by the fire of my jealousy.
- Romans 2:8but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.
- 1 Kings 22:21“Then a spirit came forward, stood in the Lord’s presence, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
- Job 1:12“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, do not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.
- Job 2:6“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”
Commentaries on Psalms 78:49
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 49By sending evil angels - This is the first mention we have of evil angels. There is no mention of them in the account we have of the plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus, and what they were we cannot tell: but by what the psalmist says here of their operations, they were the sorest plague that God had sent; they were marks or the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble. Some think the destroying angel that slew all the first-born is…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger - This verse is designed to describe the last, and the most dreadful of the plagues that came upon the Egyptians, the slaying of their first-born; and hence, there is such an accumulation of expressions: anger - fierce anger - wrath - indignation - trouble. All these expressions are designed to be emphatic; all these things were combined when the first-born were slain. There was no form of affliction that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 40-55Verses 40-55 Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be discouraged from repentance. The Holy One of Israel will do what is most for his own glory, and what is most for their good. Their forgetting former favours, led them to limit God for the future. God made his own people to go forth like sheep; and guided…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 40-55The Israelites rebelled even though the Lord had rescued them from powerful plagues.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4949. evil angels--or, "angels of evil"--many were perhaps employed, and other evils inflicted.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 78
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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