Psalms 78:50
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms 78:50 in other translations
| BSB | He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague. |
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| WEB | He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, |
| ASV | He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence, |
| YLT | He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up. |
| DARBY | He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
| BBE | He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease. |
| Webster | He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
What does Psalms 78:50 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 78:50-51
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · 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…
Psalms 78:50 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 78:50
- Ezekiel 7:4
And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
- 2 Peter 2:4-5
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
- Exodus 9:3-6
Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel. And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land. And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
- Ezekiel 9:10
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
- Romans 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
- Ezekiel 7:9
And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.
- Job 27:22
For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
- Ezekiel 5:11
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
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- Psalms 78:49
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
- Psalms 78:50
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
- Psalms 78:51
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psalms 78:50 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Dispuso el camino á su furor; no eximió la vida de ellos de la muerte, sino que entregó su vida á la mortandad. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il fraya un chemin à sa colère; il ne préserva pas leurs âmes de la mort, et livra leur vie à la peste; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er bahnte seinem Zorne einen Weg, entzog nicht dem Tode ihre Seele und gab ihr Leben der Pest preis. |