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Psalm 78:48–50

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48*He killed their cattle with hail and their flocks with lightning.v

49He caused them great distress

by pouring out his anger and fierce rage,

which came as messengers of death.

50He did not restrain his anger

or spare their lives,

but killed them with a plague.

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Footnotes

  1. vhail … lightning; or terrible disease … deadly plague.

Cross references

  1. *78.47, 48: Ex 9:22–25

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He gave over their cattle to the hail

and their flocks to thunderbolts.

He let loose on them his burning anger,

wrath, indignation, and distress,

a company of destroying angels.

He made a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death,

but gave their lives over to the plague.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He gave over their cattle to the hail,

their livestock to bolts of lightning.

He unleashed against them his hot anger,

his wrath, indignation and hostility—

a band of destroying angels.

He prepared a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death

but gave them over to the plague.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He handed over their livestock to hail

and their cattle to lightning bolts.

He sent his burning anger against them:

fury, indignation, and calamity—

a band of deadly messengers.

He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.

NLTNew Living Translation

He abandoned their cattle to the hail,

their livestock to bolts of lightning.

He loosed on them his fierce anger—

all his fury, rage, and hostility.

He dispatched against them

a band of destroying angels.

He turned his anger against them;

he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives

but ravaged them with the plague.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He also handed their cattle over to the hail

and their livestock to the lightning bolts.

He sent against them his fierce anger,

rage and indignation and trouble,

a band of destroying angels.

He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them from death

but handed their life over to the plague.

KJV 1900King James Version

He gave up their cattle also to the hail,

And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,

Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,

By sending evil angels among them.

He made a way to his anger;

He spared not their soul from death,

But gave their life over to the pestilence;