Psalm 78:50 He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

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Parallel Verses

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

English Standard Version
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
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
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
He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

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

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.

Cross References

Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

Exodus 12:30
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

Psalm 2:5
Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

Amos 4:10
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet have you not returned to me, said the LORD.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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