Psalms 78:64
His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
In Context
63Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:11The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
1 Samuel 4:19Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
1 Samuel 4:22“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”
Job 27:15His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
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 →