Psaume 78:50

50 Il donna carrière à sa colère, et ne préserva point leur âme de la mort; il livra leur vie à la mortalité.

Psaume 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.

Psaume 78:50 In-Context

48 Qu'il livra leur bétail à la grêle, et leurs troupeaux à la foudre;

49 Qu'il envoya contre eux l'ardeur de son courroux, l'indignation, la colère, la détresse, déchaînant les messagers de malheur.

50 Il donna carrière à sa colère, et ne préserva point leur âme de la mort; il livra leur vie à la mortalité.

51 Il frappa dans l'Égypte tous les premiers-nés, les prémices de la force dans les tentes de Cham.

52 Il fit partir son peuple comme des brebis, et les conduisit par le désert comme un troupeau.