Psalms 78:64
His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
In Context
63His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.
65And the Lord waketh as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from wine.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:11and the ark of God hath been taken, and the two sons of Eli have died, Hophni and Phinehas.
1 Samuel 4:19And his daughter-in-law, wife of Phinehas, [is] pregnant, about to bear, and she heareth the report of the taking of the ark of God, that her father-in-law and her husband have died, and she boweth, and beareth, for her pains have turned upon her.
1 Samuel 4:22And she saith, 'Honour hath removed from Israel, for the ark of God hath been taken.'
Job 27:15His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do 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 →