Psalms 78:61
And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
In Context
60And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
62And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.
Cross References
Exodus 40:34If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:
1 Samuel 4:17And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken.
1 Samuel 6:1Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines seven months.
Psalms 24:7Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.
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 →