Psalms 78:44
42 They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
- KJV
- And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
- WEB
- he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
- ASV
- And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.
- DARBY
- And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
- BLB
- And He turned their rivers into blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
- ÅB
- Han gjorde deres elver til blod, og sine rinnende vann kunne de ikke drikke.
- OTB
- Og forvandlet deres elver til blod,
Og deres bekker, så de ikke kunne drikke. - B1930
- Han gjorde deres elver til blod, og sine rinnende vann kunde de ikke drikke.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 105:29
He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.
Read in contextExodus 7:17–21
This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will turn to blood.
Read in contextRevelation 16:3–6
And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.
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