Psalms 78:63
Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
In Context
62And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.
64Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,
Psalms 78:21Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.
Jeremiah 7:34And I will cause ot cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the coice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 25:10And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill, and the light of the lamp.
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 →