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Psalms 78:63
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Fire consumed his chosen young men,and his young women had no wedding songs.
Fire devoured their young men; Their virgins had no wedding song.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no marriage song.
The young men died by fire, and the young women had no one to marry.
Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins remained unmarried.
The fire [of war] devoured His young men, And His [bereaved] virgins had no wedding songs.
Fire devoured His young men, And His virgins had no wedding songs.
Fire devoured their young men; Their virgins had no wedding song.
The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.
Fire devoured His choice men,And His virgins had no wedding songs.
Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
Fire destroyed the young men, and the young women were left with no one to marry.
Fire consumed their young men, their virgins had no wedding-song,
The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;
Their young men were burned to death, and there were no wedding songs for their young women.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were violated.
Young men were killed in war, and young women had no one to marry.
Fire devoured his young men, and his young women were not praised.
The fire burned up their young men; and their virgins were not praised.
He gaue his people ouer in to the swerde, for he was wroth with his heretage.
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.
Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.
The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not giuen to mariage.
Fire consumed his young men: and his maydens were not maryed.
Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not.
Fire devoured their young men; and their maidens had no marriage-song.
Fier eet the yonge men of hem; and the virgyns of hem weren not biweilid.
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs.
Fire burned up their young men. And their young women had no wedding songs.
Fire devoured their young men, and their girls had no marriage song.
His young men, were devoured by fire, And, his virgins, were not praised in song;
(77-63) Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage song.
His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.
Fire devoured His young men, And His virgins had no wedding songs.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fire: Psalms 78:21, Deuteronomy 29:20, Deuteronomy 32:22
maidens: Isaiah 4:1, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 25:10
given to marriage: Heb. praised
Reciprocal: Exodus 22:24 - your wives Psalms 78:31 - chosen men Psalms 89:46 - thy wrath Lamentations 2:21 - my virgins 1 Corinthians 7:25 - concerning
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The fire consumed their young men,.... Not Nadab and Abihu, as some of the Jewish Rabbins interpret it, of which Jarchi makes mention; but the young men, the choice, the flower, of the Israelitish army, which engaged with the Philistines in the times of Eli; and the fire that consumed them is not to be understood of material fire, or of extraordinary fire from heaven, but either of the wrath of God, as Jarchi, or of the flaming glittering sword of the enemy, which consumed them like fire; see Numbers 21:28
and their maidens were not given to marriage; the young men to whom they should have been married, and to whom they might have been espoused, being slain in battle: or, "were not honoured" a; that with marriage, which is honourable to all, Hebrews 13:4, or "were not praised" b; were not attended with epithalamies and nuptial songs, such as used to be sung at the time of marriage; hence, as Kimchi observes, the nuptial chamber is called בית הלולא, "the house of praise"; and so frequently, when a great calamity is threatened or described, it is said, the voice of the bride and bridegroom is not heard; see
Jeremiah 16:9.
a הוללו "honoratae", Munster; so some in Vatablus. b "Celebratae epithalamio", Montanus; "laudatae", Tigurine version, Amama, so Ainsworth; "laudarentur", Junius Tremellius, Michaelis "laudabantur", Piscator; "commendabantur", Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The fire consumed their young men - Fire here may be regarded as an image of destructive war, as in Numbers 21:28 : “For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab,” etc. The idea here is, that the young people had been cut off in war.
And their maidens were not given to marriage - As the young people who would have entered into this relation were cut off in war. The margin here is praised; “The maidens were not praised.” This is in accordance with the Hebrew. The idea is, “Their virgins were not praised in nuptial songs;” that is, there were no marriage celebrations; no songs such as were usually composed on such occasions in praise of those who were brides. The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this much less accurately, and much less beautifully, were not lamented.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 78:63. Their maidens were not given to marriage. — הוללו hullalu, were not celebrated with marriage songs. It is considered a calamity in the east if a maiden arrives at the age of twelve years without being sought or given in marriage.
