Psalms 78:50

50 God prepared a path for his anger. He didn't spare their lives. He gave them over to the plague.

Psalms 78:50 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:50

He made a way to his anger
Or, "for" it, so that nothing could obstruct it, or hinder the execution of it; or "he weighed a path for his anger" ^F13; he weighed it in the balance of justice, and proportioned his anger to their crimes, and punished them according to their just deserts:

he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the
pestilence;
which some understand of their cattle, and of the murrain that came upon them, by which they were destroyed, and which was the fifth plague of Egypt, ( Exodus 9:3 ) , so the Targum,

``their beasts he delivered unto death;''

but Aben Ezra interprets it of the slaughter of the firstborn, expressed in the following verse; and so others.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (wpal bytn olpy) "ponderavit semitam furori suo", Pagninus, Vatablus; "libravit semitam irae suae", Tigurine version; "iter ad iram suam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Psalms 78:50 In-Context

48 He killed their cattle with hail. Their livestock were struck by lightning.

49 He brought great trouble on Egypt by pouring out his blazing anger. In his hot anger he sent destroying angels against them.

50 God prepared a path for his anger. He didn't spare their lives. He gave them over to the plague.

51 He killed the oldest son of each family in Egypt. He struck down the oldest son in every house in the land of Ham.

52 But he brought his people out like a flock. He led them like sheep through the desert.