Psalms 78 · Verse 48

Psalms 78:48

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms 78:48, King James Version

Psalms 78:48 in other translations

BSBHe abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
WEBHe also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
ASVHe gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
YLTAnd delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames.
DARBYAnd he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
BBEIce was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.
WebsterHe gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

What does Psalms 78:48 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 78:47-48

47-48. The additional effects of the storm here mentioned (compare Ex 9:23-34) are consistent with Moses' account.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 48 He gave up their cattle - See on Exo 9:23 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 78:40-55

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…

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Psalms 78:48 in the original Hebrew

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וַיַּסְגֵּ֣רvai.yas.Gerand he delivered upH5462
לַבָּרָ֣דla.ba.Radto <the> hailH1259
בְּעִירָ֑םbe.'i.Ramcattle theirH1165
וּ֝מִקְנֵיהֶ֗םu.mik.nei.Hemand livestock theirH4735
לָרְשָׁפִֽים\׃la.re.sha.Fimto <the> lightning boltsH7565

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 78:48

  • Exodus 9:19

    Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

  • Exodus 9:28

    Intreat the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
gave up. Heb. shut up. hot thunderbolts. or, lightnings.
Ex 9:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 78:47

    He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

  • Psalms 78:48

    He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

  • Psalms 78:49

    He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

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Psalms 78:48 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y entregó al pedrisco sus bestias, y al fuego sus ganados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et il livra leur bétail à la grêle, et leurs troupeaux à la foudre.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und er gab ihr Vieh dem Hagel preis, und ihre Herden den Blitzen.