Psalms 78:29

29 So they ate till they were satisfied; he gave them what they craved.

Psalms 78:29 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:29

So they did eat, and were well filled
. Or "exceedingly filled" F13, or too much, as some versions render it; they eat to excess, not merely to satisfy nature, but to gratify their sensual appetite: gluttony is a sin; it is an abuse of the creatures; it hurts the body by filling it with gross humours, and bringing diseases on it; it is injurious to the mind; the heart may be overcharged by it; it disposes it to sin; it leads to impiety, to atheism, and disbelief of a future state, which often go along with it, and ends in destruction, which is the case of those whose god is their belly:

for he gave them their own desire;
or their lust F14, what they lusted after, flesh; and they had as much of it as they would, though this was given in judgment; and a sad thing it is when God gives men a fulness of this world's things, and leaves them to the abuse of them, or sends leanness into their souls, and gives them up to their own hearts' lusts.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 (dam webvyw) "et saturati sunt valde", Pagninus, Montanus
F14 (Mtwat) "concupiscentiam ipsorum", Cocceius.

Psalms 78:29 In-Context

27 and rained down meat on them like dust, birds flying thick as the sand on the seashore.
28 He let them fall in the middle of their camp, all around their tents.
29 So they ate till they were satisfied; he gave them what they craved.
30 They were still fulfilling their craving, the food was still in their mouths,
31 when the anger of God rose up against them and slaughtered their strongest men, laying low the young men of Isra'el.
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