Psalms 78:62
And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
In Context
61And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
63Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:10So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every man fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
Isaiah 64:9Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.
Jeremiah 12:13They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.
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 →