Psalms 78:66
And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
In Context
65Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.
67Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
Cross References
1 Samuel 6:4Then said they: 'What shall be the guilt-offering which we shall return to Him?' And they said: 'Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
Job 40:12Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
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 →