Psalms 78:50

50 He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

Psalms 78:50 in Other Translations

50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

50 He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

50 He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with the plague.

50 to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives.

50 He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death, but delivered their lives 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 gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.

49 He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.

50 He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

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