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Psalms 78:50

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.

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

51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

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BSB
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
KJV
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
WEB
He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
ASV
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
DARBY
He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
BLB
He made level a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, and He gave over their life to the pestilence.
ÅB
Han brøt vei for sin vrede, sparte ikke deres sjel for døden, overgav deres liv til pesten.
OTB
Han banet vei for sin vrede;
Han sparte ikke deres sjeler fra døden,
Men overga deres liv til pesten,
B1930
Han brøt vei for sin vrede, sparte ikke deres sjel for døden, overgav deres liv til pesten.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 7:4

    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

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  • 2 Peter 2:4–5

    For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

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  • Ezekiel 8:18

    Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

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  • Exodus 9:3–6

    then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

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  • Ezekiel 9:10

    But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

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  • Romans 8:32

    He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

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  • Ezekiel 7:9

    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

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  • Job 27:22

    It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

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