Psalms 78:62
Because he was angry with his people, he allowed them to be killed [MTY] by their enemies.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
In Context
63Young men were killed in battles, with the result that the young women had no one to marry.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:10So the Philistine men fought very hard, and they defeated the Israelis. They killed 30,000 Israeli soldiers, and the other Israeli soldiers fled and ran away to their tents.
Isaiah 64:9Yahweh, do not continue to be angry with us; do not keep thinking about our sins forever. Do not forget that we are all your people.
Jeremiah 12:13It is as though my people planted wheat, but now they are harvesting thorns. They have become very tired because of much hard work, but they have gained nothing from all that work. They will be very disappointed because their harvests will be very small, and that will happen because I, Yahweh, am extremely angry with 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 →