Psalms 78:50

Young's Literal Translation

He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He cleared a path for his anger.He did not spare them from deathbut delivered their lives to the plague.

Hebrew Names Version
He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

King James Version
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

English Standard Version
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

New Century Version
He found a way to show his anger. He did not keep them from dying but let them die by a terrible disease.

New English Translation
He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

Amplified Bible
He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run]; He did not spare their souls from death, But turned over their lives to the plague.

New American Standard Bible
He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their souls from death, But turned their lives over to the plague,

World English Bible
He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

Geneva Bible (1587)
He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,

Legacy Standard Bible
He leveled a path for His anger;He did not hold back their soul from death,But gave over their life to the plague,

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

Contemporary English Version
God gave in to his anger and slaughtered them in a terrible way.

Complete Jewish Bible
to clear a path for his wrath. He did not spare them from death, but gave them over to the plague,

Darby Translation
He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Easy-to-Read Version
He found a way to show his anger. He did not spare their lives. He let them die with a deadly disease.

George Lamsa Translation
He resorted to strong measures; he spared not their souls from death, and gave their cattle over to the pestilence;

Good News Translation
He did not restrain his anger or spare their lives, but killed them with a plague.

Lexham English Bible
He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague.

Literal Translation
He leveled a path for His anger; He did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How he sent vpon them ye furiousnesse of his wrath, anger & displeasure: with trouble and fallinge in of euel angels.

American Standard Version
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

Bible in Basic English
He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

King James Version (1611)
He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He made away to his indignatio, & spared not their soule from death: he gaue their lyfe to be subiect to the pestilence.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death;

English Revised Version
He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He made weie to the path of his ire, and he sparide not fro the deth of her lyues; and he closide togidere in deth the beestis of hem.

Update Bible Version
He made a path for his anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

Webster's Bible Translation
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

New King James Version
He made a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the plague,

New Living Translation
He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians' lives but ravaged them with the plague.

New Life Bible
He made a straight path for His anger. He did not save their soul from death. But He gave their lives over to all these troubles.

New Revised Standard
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He leveled a path for his anger, Withheld not, from death, their soul, But, their life - to the pestilence, he delivered:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-50) He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.

Revised Standard Version
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague,

Contextual Overview

⁴⁰ How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place? ⁴¹ Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited. ⁴² They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary. ⁴³ When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan, ⁴⁴ And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not. ⁴⁵ He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them, ⁴⁶ And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust. ⁴⁷ He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost, ⁴⁸ And delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames. ⁴⁹ He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress -- A discharge of evil messengers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made way: Heb. weighed a path

he spared: Job 27:22, Ezekiel 5:11, Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 7:9, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 9:10, Romans 8:32, 2 Peter 2:4, 2 Peter 2:5

life over to the pestilence: or, beasts to the murrain, Exodus 9:3-6

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:6 - General Exodus 18:1 - done Deuteronomy 29:20 - will not spare Job 40:11 - Cast Amos 4:10 - pestilence Habakkuk 3:5 - went Habakkuk 3:14 - the head

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He made a way to his anger,.... Or, "for" it, so that nothing could obstruct it, or hinder the execution of it; or "he weighed a path for his anger" m; he weighed it in the balance of justice, and proportioned his anger to their crimes, and punished them according to their just deserts:

he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; which some understand of their cattle, and of the murrain that came upon them, by which they were destroyed, and which was the fifth plague of Egypt, Exodus 9:3, so the Targum,

"their beasts he delivered unto death;''

but Aben Ezra interprets it of the slaughter of the firstborn, expressed in the following verse; and so others.

m יפלס נתיב לאפו "ponderavit semitam furori suo", Pagninus, Vatablus; "libravit semitam irae suae", Tigurine version; "iter ad iram suam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He made a way to his anger - Margin, he weighed a path. He leveled a path for it; he took away all hindrance to it; he allowed it to have free scope. The idea of weighing is not in the original. The allusion is to a preparation made by which one can march along freely, and without any obstruction. See the notes at Isaiah 40:3-4.

He spared not their soul from death - He spared not their lives. That is, he gave them over to death.

But gave their life over to the pestilence - Margin, their beasts to the murrain. The original will admit of either interpretation, but the connection seems rather to demand the interpretation which is in the text. Both these things, however, occurred.