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" ; 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, Ex 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.
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Psalms 78:50
Psalms 78:50
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him, and the many tokens of his displeasure they had been under for…Psalms 78 — OverviewPsalms 78 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgePsalms 78:1, An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God; Psalms 78:9, The story of God’s wrath against the incredulous and disobedient; Psalms 78:67, The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion,…Psalms 78 — OverviewPsalms 78 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleMaschil of Asaph. Or for "Asaph" ; a doctrinal and "instructive" psalm, as the word "Maschil" signifies; see Ps 32:1, which was delivered to Asaph to be sung; the Targum is,"the understanding of the Holy Spirit by the…Psalms 78:40-72Psalms 78:40-72 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former,
showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking
they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for their sins,…Psalms 78:50Psalms 78:50 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgemade 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 2:4-5
life over to the pestilence: or, beasts to the murrain, Exodus 9:3-6