He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
Parallel translations
- KJV He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
- BSB He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
- NKJV He made a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the plague,
- NASB He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their souls from death, But turned their lives over to the plague,
- NLT He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with the plague.
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- Ezek 7:4My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’
- 2 Pet 2:4–5For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
- Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
- Ezek 8:18Therefore will I also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
- Ezek 9:10As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”
- Exod 9:3–6behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
- Ezek 7:9My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will bring on you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you; and you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.
- Ezek 5:11Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
- Job 27:22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
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