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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:50

In 11 translations

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;He made…: Heb. He weighed a pathlife…: or, beasts to the murrain
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,
LSV
He ponders a path for His anger, || He did not keep back their soul from death, || Indeed, He delivered up their life to the pestilence.
YLT
He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.
DBY
He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
DRC77:50
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.
GNV
He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,
JPS
He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
LXXE77:50
He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death;

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Original-language editions

WLC
יְפַלֵּ֥ס נָתִ֗יב לְאַ֫פּ֥וֹ לֹא־חָשַׂ֣ךְ מִמָּ֣וֶת נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם לַדֶּ֥בֶר הִסְגִּֽיר׃
LXX-Br77:50
ἀγγέλων πονηρῶν. Ὡδοποίησε τρίβον τῇ ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἐφείσατο ἀπὸ θανάτου τῶν ψυχῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ κτήνη αὐτῶν

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 7:4I 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.’
  • 2 Peter 2:4–5For 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; if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its…
  • Romans 8:32He 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?
  • Ezekiel 8:18Therefore 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.”
  • Ezekiel 9:10But 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.”
  • Exodus 9:3–6then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks. But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the…
  • Ezekiel 7:9I 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.
  • Ezekiel 5:11Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will…
  • Job 27:22It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

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