He made a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over 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;
- BSB He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives 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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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 7:4My 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;
- 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.
- 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 9:10As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”
- 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 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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