Psalms 78:64
His priests, by the sword, did fall, And, his widows, were not able to bewail.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
In Context
63His young men, were devoured by fire, And, his virgins, were not praised in song;
65Then awoke, as one that had slept, Adonay, As a warrior exulting with wine!
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:11And, the ark of God, was taken,—and, the two sons of Eli, were slain, Hophni and Phinehas.
1 Samuel 4:19Now, his daughter-in-law, wife of Phinehas, was with child, ready to give birth, and, when she heard the tidings, as to the taking of the ark of God, and the death of her father-in-law, and her husband, she bowed herself and gave birth, for her pains had seized her.
1 Samuel 4:22So she said—Exiled is the glory from Israel,—For the ark of God hath been taken.
Job 27:15His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, 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 →