Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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,
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 sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress -- A discharge of evil messengers. 50 He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up. 51 And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham.
Cross References
Exodus 9:3-6
lo, the hand of Jehovah is on thy cattle which are in the field, on horses, on asses, on camels, on herd, and on flock -- a pestilence very grievous.
Job 27:22
And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.
Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish?
Ezekiel 7:4
And no pity on thee hath Mine eye, nor do I spare, For thy ways against thee I do set, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:9
And not pity doth Mine eye, nor do I spare, According to thy ways unto thee I give, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I am Jehovah the smiter.
Ezekiel 8:18
And I also deal in fury, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare, and they have cried in Mine ears -- a loud voice -- and I do not hear them.'
Ezekiel 9:10
And I also, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare; their way on their own head I have put.'
Romans 8:32
He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?
2 Peter 2:4-5
For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,