Psalms 78:50

50 He found a way to show his anger. He did not keep them from dying but let them die by a terrible disease.

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 animals with hail and their cattle with lightning.

49 He showed them his hot anger. He sent his strong anger against them, his destroying angels.

50 He found a way to show his anger. He did not keep them from dying but let them die by a terrible disease.

51 God killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt, the oldest son of each family of Ham.

52 But God led his people out like sheep and he guided them like a flock through the desert.