44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

Other Translations of Psalm 78:44

New International Version

44 He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.

English Standard Version

44 He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.

The Message

44 He turned the River and its streams to blood - not a drop of water fit to drink.

New King James Version

44 Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink.

New Living Translation

44 For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 78:44

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.