48 He gave their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to the thunderbolts.

49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of [a]evil angels.

50 He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life to the pestilence,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 78:49 So called either of the effect, that is, of punishing the wicked: or else because they were wicked spirits, whom God permitted to vex men.

48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock(A) to bolts of lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,(B)
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.(C)
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.

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