Psalms 78:44
So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
In Context
43How he had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;
45He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction.
Cross References
Exodus 7:20And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood;
Revelation 16:3And the second let what was in his vessel come out into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea came to an end.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →