Psalms 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
In Context
63Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:11And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were slain.
1 Samuel 4:19And his daughter in law the wife of Phinees, was big with child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken, and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself and fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden.
1 Samuel 4:22And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken.
Job 27:15They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
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 →