Psalms 78:44
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto 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.
Compare
- 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 into blood, and slew their fish.
Read in contextExodus 7:17–21
Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
Read in contextRevelation 16:3–6
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
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