◄ Psalm 78:62 {77:62} ►
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Good News Translation
He was angry with his own people and let them be killed by their enemies.

New Revised Standard Version
He gave his people to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.

Contemporary English Version
God took out his anger on his chosen ones and let them be killed by enemy swords.

New American Bible
God delivered his people to the sword; he was enraged against his heritage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

gave

1 Samuel 4:2,10,11 And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines: and there were slain in that fight, here and there in the fields, about four thousand men. . . .

wrought

Psalm 89:38 But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my anointed.

Isaiah 64:9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
…61And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy. 62And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.63Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.…
Cross References
Judges 20:21
And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.

1 Samuel 4:10
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every man fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

Lamentations 2:21
Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.

Psalm 78:61
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