Psalms 78:44
And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might, not drink.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
In Context
43How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
45He sent amongst them divers sores of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.
Cross References
Exodus 7:20And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: and lifting up the rod he struck the water of the river before Pharao and his servants: and it was turned into blood.
Revelation 16:3And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea, and there came blood as it were of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.
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 →