Psalms 78:47
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.
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.
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 killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- KJV
- He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
- WEB
- He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
- ASV
- He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.
- DARBY
- He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;
- BLB
- He destroyed with hail their vines, and their sycamore trees with frost.
- ÅB
- Han slo deres vintrær ned med hagl og deres morbærtrær med haglsteiner.
- OTB
- Han ødela deres vinstokker med hagl
Og deres morbærtrær med frost. - B1930
- Han slo deres vintrær ned med hagl og deres morbærtrær med haglstener.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 9:18–34
Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.
Read in contextPsalms 105:32–33
He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.
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