48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.
48 He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds.
48 He also gave up their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to fiery lightning.
48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
781 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
781
781 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
781 Listen, dear friends, to God's truth, bend your ears to what I tell you.
781 A Contemplation of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
781 OÂ my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying,
(Read Psalm 78:1-8)
These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the church may abide for ever. Also, that the providences of God, both in mercy and in judgment, might encourage them to conform to the will of God. The works of God much strengthen our resolution to keep his commandments. Hypocrisy is the high road to apostacy; those that do not set their hearts right, will not be stedfast with God. Many parents, by negligence and wickedness, become murderers of their children. But young persons, though they are bound to submit in all things lawful, must not obey sinful orders, or copy sinful examples.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 78:48
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.