Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
He did not spare their soul from death,
But
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;
Holman Bible
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.
International Standard Version
He blazed a path for his anger; he did not stop short from killing them, but handed them over to pestilence.
A Conservative Version
He made a path for his anger. He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
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,
Amplified
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.
Darby Translation
He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Julia Smith Translation
He will prepare a beaten path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, and their life he delivered to the word;
King James 2000
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Lexham Expanded Bible
He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague.
Modern King James verseion
He made a way to His anger; He did not save their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When he made a way to his fearful indignation, and spared not their souls from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
NET Bible
He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.
New Heart English Bible
He made a path for his anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
The Emphasized Bible
He leveled a path for his anger, Withheld not, from death, their soul, But, their life - to the pestilence, he delivered:
Webster
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
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,
Youngs 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.
Themes
Anger of God » Manifested in judgments and afflictions
God's Judgments » Pestilence » Sent
natural Life » Of the wicked, not specially protected by God
Murrain (a disease of livestock) » A plague of egypt
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:50
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
49 He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them. 50 He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease. 51 He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
Cross References
Exodus 9:3-6
Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.
Job 27:22
God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
Ezekiel 5:11
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.
Ezekiel 7:4
My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:9
My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment.
Ezekiel 8:18
For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.
Ezekiel 9:10
And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.
Romans 8:32
He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?
2 Peter 2:4-5
For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;