Psalms 78:50

"He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil."

Key Reflection

Psalms 78:50 vividly describes the severity of God's judgment upon the Egyptians during the plagues. By employing powerful imagery, the psalmist portrays God’s anger as a relentless force, encompassing various forms such as wrath, indignation, and trouble. The inclusion of "a band of angels of evil" adds to this depiction, suggesting that even divine messengers were involved in executing God's judgment, emphasizing both the vastness and the decisive nature of His wrath against those who resisted His will.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

He made a way to his anger -Margin, he weighed a path. He leveled a path for it; he took away all hindrance to it; he allowed it to have free scope. The idea of weighing is not in the original. The allusion is to a preparation made by which one can march along freely, and without any obstruction. See the notes atIsaiah 40:3-4. He spared not their soul from death -He spared not their lives. That is, he gave them over to death. But gave their life over to the pestilence -Margin, their beasts to the murrain. The original will admit of either interpretation, but the connection seems rather to demand the interpretation which is in the text.

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