He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
Parallel translations
- WEB He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
- KJV He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
- 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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Quick answer
God cleared a path for His anger and gave Egypt over to pestilence. He did not spare the lives of His enemies.
Overview
The Lord 'made a path for his anger,' allowing judgment to proceed unchecked against Egypt's hardened defiance. Pestilence claimed many lives as part of His righteous response. This sobering picture of unsparing judgment magnifies the wonder that, in Christ, God's own Son was not spared so that we might be.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ezek 7:4I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
- 2 Pet 2:4–5For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- Exod 9:3–6then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
- Rom 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Ezek 9:10But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
- Ezek 8:18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
- Ezek 7:9I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.
- Ezek 5:11Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
- Job 27:22It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
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