Psalms 78:65
And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
In Context
64Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.
66And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:15Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to thee.
Psalms 44:23Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
Isaiah 42:13The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies.
Zephaniah 3:17The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty, he will save: he will rejoice over thee with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he will be joyful over thee in praise.
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 →