Psalm 78:50
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New International Version (©2011)
He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians' lives but ravaged them with the plague.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He blazed a path for his anger; he did not stop short from killing them, but handed them over to pestilence.

NET Bible (©2006)
He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And he breached the evil path and did not spare their souls from death and delivered their animals to death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them. He let the plague take their lives.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

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

American Standard Version
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.

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

English Revised Version
He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Webster's Bible Translation
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

World English Bible
He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

Young's Literal Translation
He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

78:40-55. Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be discouraged from repentance. The Holy One of Israel will do what is most for his own glory, and what is most for their good. Their forgetting former favours, led them to limit God for the future. God made his own people to go forth like sheep; and guided them in the wilderness, as a shepherd his flock, with all care and tenderness. Thus the true Joshua, even Jesus, brings his church out of the wilderness; but no earthly Canaan, no worldly advantages, should make us forget that the church is in the wilderness while in this world, and that there remaineth a far more glorious rest for the people of God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 50. - He made a way to his anger; literally, he levelled a way for his anger; i.e. made a smooth path for it (Cheyne). He spared not their soul from death; rather, held not back their soul. But gave their life over to the pestilence. This is, undoubtedly, the true meaning, and not "he gave their beasts over to the murrain." Though no "pestilence" is expressly mentioned in Exodus 12. as having caused the death of the firstborn, yet pestilence may assuredly have been the means employed.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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" (m); 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.

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

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

50, 51. made a way—removed obstacles, gave it full scope.

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I will Open My Mouth in Parables
…49He cast on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: …

Exodus 12:29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
Exodus 12:30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
Exodus 15:7 "In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you. You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.
Psalm 2:5 He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
Amos 4:10 "I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.