47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Other Translations of Psalm 78:47

King James Version

47 He destroyed destroyed: Heb. killed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

English Standard Version

47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.

The Message

47 He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards.

New King James Version

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost.

New Living Translation

47 He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 78:47

Commentary on Psalm 78:40-55.

(Read Psalm 78:40-55.)

Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be discouraged from repentance. The Holy One of Israel will do what is most for his own glory, and what is most for their good. Their forgetting former favours, led them to limit God for the future. God made his own people to go forth like sheep; and guided them in the wilderness, as a shepherd his flock, with all care and tenderness. Thus the true Joshua, even Jesus, brings his church out of the wilderness; but no earthly Canaan, no worldly advantages, should make us forget that the church is in the wilderness while in this world, and that there remaineth a far more glorious rest for the people of God.