New King James Version
Psalms 78:49
49He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, By sending angels of destruction among them.
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 Living Translation (NLT)He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.
Context of Psalms 78:49
47He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost. 48He also gave up their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to fiery lightning. He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, By sending angels of destruction among them. 50He made a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the plague, 51And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt, The first of their strength in 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 11:6Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and brimstone and a burning wind Shall be the portion of their cup.
- Job 20:23When he is about to fill his stomach, God will cast on him the fury of His wrath, And will rain it on him while he is eating.
- Isaiah 42:25Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart.
- Lamentations 4:11The Lord has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured its foundations.
- Zephaniah 3:8“Therefore wait for Me,” says the Lord, “Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations To My assembly of kingdoms, To pour on them My indignation, All My fierce anger; All the earth shall be devoured With the fire of My jealousy.
- Romans 2:8but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
- 1 Kings 22:21Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will persuade him.’
- Job 1:12And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
- Job 2:6And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but 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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