Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 78:50 - 78:50

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 78:50 - 78:50


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He made a way, Heb. He weighed a path or causeway, i.e. he made a most smooth, and even, and exact path, as if he had done it by weight and measure, that so his anger might pass swiftly and freely without interruption. The phrase also seems to note the wisdom and justice of God in weighing out their plagues proportionably to their sins, and exercising great severity towards them answerably to their great and barbarous cruelty towards his people.



He spared not their soul from death, i.e. he punished them with death or killing plagues, as the next words explain it.



Their life; or, their beasts. So he speaks of the murrain among their cattle. But our translation seems better to agree with the next foregoing and following passages, which plainly speak of the death of persons.