Psalms 78:44

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
And turned their rivers to blood,And their streams, they could not drink.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he turned into blood their riuers & fluddes: so that they might not drinke.

Darby Translation
And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;

New King James Version
Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink.

Literal Translation
He turned their rivers into blood, also their streams that they might not drink.

Easy-to-Read Version
God turned the rivers into blood, and the Egyptians could not drink the water.

World English Bible
Turned their rivers into blood, Their streams, so that they could not drink.

King James Version (1611)
And had turned their riuers into blood: and their flouds, that they could not drinke.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How he had wrought his miracles in Egipte, and his woders in the londe of Zoan.

Amplified Bible
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

American Standard Version
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

Bible in Basic English
So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

Update Bible Version
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

Webster's Bible Translation
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

New English Translation
He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

Contemporary English Version
He turned the rivers of Egypt into blood, and no one could drink from the streams.

Complete Jewish Bible
He turned their rivers into blood, so they couldn't drink from their streams.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And turned their riuers into blood, & their floods, that they could not drinke.

George Lamsa Translation
Nor how he had turned their rivers into blood and their brooks, that they could not drink.

Hebrew Names Version
Turned their rivers into blood, Their streams, so that they could not drink.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.

New Life Bible
He changed their rivers into blood. They could not drink from their rivers.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink.

English Revised Version
And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink.

Berean Standard Bible
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When he turned, into blood, their Nile-streams, And, their own rivers, could they not drink;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-44) And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink.

Lexham English Bible
when he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink from their streams.

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

New American Standard Bible
And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

New Century Version
He turned their rivers to blood so no one could drink the water.

Good News Translation
He turned the rivers into blood, and the Egyptians had no water to drink.

Christian Standard Bible®
He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he turnede the flodis of hem and the reynes of hem in to blood; that thei schulden not drynke.

Young's Literal Translation
And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.

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

Contextual Overview

⁴⁰ Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland. ⁴¹ Again and again they tested God's patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ⁴² They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies. ⁴³ They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan. ⁴⁴ For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams. ⁴⁵ He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them. ⁴⁶ He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts. ⁴⁷ He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet. ⁴⁸ He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning. ⁴⁹ He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 105:29, Exodus 7:17-21, Revelation 16:3-6, The miracles mentioned in this and the four subsequent verses, evidently shew the power of God over the elements of nature, which at that time were the objects of Egyptian worship.

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:20 - all the waters

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And had turned their rivers into blood,.... The river Nile and its seven streams; this was the first of the plagues of Egypt, Exodus 7:20, and was a just retaliation for drowning the infants of the Israelites in their river, Exodus 1:22, a like plague will be inflicted on spiritual Egypt, and with equal justice; see

Revelation 11:8,

and their floods, that they could not drink; the rivulets that flowed from the Nile, and every spring or confluence of water; or rather by these rivers and floods are meant the canals and ditches, which, as Jarchi e observes, were made by the hands of men, from the banks of the river Nile, to water their fields with.

e Comment. on Exod. vii. 19. so Kimchi in Sepher Shorash. rad. אר.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And had turned their rivers into blood - Exodus 7:20. There was properly but one river in Egypt - the Nile. But there were several branches of that river at the mouth; and there were numerous artificial streams or canals cut from the river, to anyone of which the word river might be also given. Compare the notes at Isaiah 11:15.

And their floods ... - Their streams; the canals and branches of the Nile, where they usually obtained a supply of water.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:44. Turned their rivers into blood — See on Exodus 7:20.