Psalmen 78:29

29 Toen aten zij, en werden zeer zat; zodat Hij hun hun lust toebracht.

Psalmen 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.

Psalmen 78:29 In-Context

27 En regende op hen vlees als stof, en gevleugeld gevogelte als zand der zeeen;
28 En deed het vallen in het midden zijns legers, rondom zijn woningen.
29 Toen aten zij, en werden zeer zat; zodat Hij hun hun lust toebracht.
30 Zij waren nog niet vervreemd van hun lust; hun spijs was nog in hun mond,
31 Als Gods toorn tegen hen opging, dat Hij van hun vetsten doodde, en de uitgelezenen van Israel nedervelde.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.