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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:44

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
And He turns their streams to blood, || And they do not drink their floods.
YLT
And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.
DBY
And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
DRC77:44
And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might, not drink.
GNV
And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.
JPS
And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.
LXXE77:44
and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink.Gr. rains, or, showers.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּהֲפֹ֣ךְ לְ֭דָם יְאֹרֵיהֶ֑ם וְ֝נֹזְלֵיהֶ֗ם בַּל־יִשְׁתָּיֽוּן׃
LXX-Br77:44
τέρατα αὐτοῦ ἐν πεδίῳ Τάνεως· Καὶ μετέστρεψεν εἰς αἷμα τοὺς ποταμοὺς αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ ὀμβρήματα αὐτῶν ὅπως μὴ πίωσιν·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 105:29He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.
  • Revelation 16:3–6And 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. And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water,…
  • Exodus 7:17–21This 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. The fish in the Nile will die, the river will…

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