English Standard Version
Psalms 78:50
50He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
Psalms 78:50 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
- New International Version (NIV)He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He made a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the plague,
- New Living Translation (NLT)He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with the plague.
Context of Psalms 78:50
48He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts. 49He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels. He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague. 51He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham. 52Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Read all of Psalms 78Psalms 78:50 word by word
יְפַלֵּ֥ס נָתִ֗יב לְאַ֫פּ֥וֹ לֹא־חָשַׂ֣ךְ מִמָּ֣וֶת נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם לַדֶּ֥בֶר הִסְגִּֽיר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- He madeפָּלַסpâlas · weighH6424
- a wayנָתִיבnâthîyb nethîybâh nethibâh · pathH5410
- to his angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
- he sparedחָשַׂךְchâώak · to withholdH2820
- not their soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: myselfH5315
- from deathמָ֫וֶתmâveth · deathH4194
- but gaveסָגַרsâgar · to shutH5462
- their lifeחַיָּהchay · living thingH2416
- to the pestilenceדֶּ֫בֶרdeber · pestilenceH1698
Cross-references for Psalms 78:50
- Job 27:22It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.
- Ezekiel 5:11Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
- Ezekiel 7:4And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 8:18Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
- Ezekiel 9:10As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads."
- Romans 8:32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
- 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
- Exodus 9:3behold, the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
Commentaries on Psalms 78:50
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 50He made a way to his anger - Margin, he weighed a path. He leveled a path for it; he took away all hindrance to it; he allowed it to have free scope. The idea of weighing is not in the original. The allusion is to a preparation made by which one can march along freely, and without any obstruction. See the notes at Isaiah 40:3-4. He spared not their soul from death - He spared not their lives. That is, he gave them over to death. But gave their life over…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. 50-5150-51. made a way--removed obstacles, gave it full scope.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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