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New Living Translation

Psalms 78:45

He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Egyptians;   Flies;   God Continued...;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Flies;   Frogs;   Insects;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Grief, Grieving;   Time;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fly;   Frog;   Plague;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Exodus, the Book of;   Fly;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Insects;   Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger (Wrath) of God;   Asaph;   Frog;   Plagues of Egypt;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fly;   Frog;   Plagues of Egypt;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Frog;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Fly, Flies;   Frog,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Flies;   Frog;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fly;   Frog;   Plagues of Egypt;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asmodeus;   Fly;   Frog;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 20;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,And frogs which destroyed them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He sent amongst them all kind of flyes who dyd eate them: and frogges who destroyed them.
Darby Translation
He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;
New King James Version
He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, And frogs, which destroyed them.
Literal Translation
He sent swarms of flies against them, and they devoured them; also frogs, and they destroyed them.
Easy-to-Read Version
He sent swarms of flies that bit them. He sent the frogs that ruined their lives.
World English Bible
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; Frogs, which destroyed them.
King James Version (1611)
Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them.
King James Version
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How he turned their waters in to bloude, so that they might not drynke of the ryuers.
Amplified Bible
He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them.
American Standard Version
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
Bible in Basic English
He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction.
Update Bible Version
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
Webster's Bible Translation
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
New English Translation
He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.
Contemporary English Version
He sent swarms of flies to pester the Egyptians, and he sent frogs to cause them trouble.
Complete Jewish Bible
He sent swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
George Lamsa Translation
He sent swarms of insects among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
Hebrew Names Version
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; Frogs, which destroyed them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
New Life Bible
He sent many flies among them that ate them, and frogs that destroyed them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them.
English Revised Version
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Berean Standard Bible
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
New Revised Standard
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He sent among them, The gad-fly, and it devoured them, And the frog, and it despoiled them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-45) He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.
Lexham English Bible
He sent among them flies that devoured them and frogs that destroyed them.
English Standard Version
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
New American Standard Bible
He sent swarms of flies among them that devoured them, And frogs that destroyed them.
New Century Version
He sent flies that bit the people. He sent frogs that destroyed them.
Good News Translation
He sent flies among them, that tormented them, and frogs that ruined their land.
Christian Standard Bible®
He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He sente a fleisch flie in to hem, and it eet hem; and he sente a paddok, and it loste hem.
Young's Literal Translation
He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them,
Revised Standard Version
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

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

sent: Psalms 105:31, Exodus 8:21-24

frogs: Psalms 105:30, Exodus 8:2-15, Revelation 16:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:6 - and the frogs Exodus 8:24 - there Revelation 16:13 - like

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He sent divers sorts of flies among them,.... This was the fourth plague; see Exodus 8:24, the word signifies a "mixture" f, and the Targum renders it

"a mixture of wild beasts;''

so Josephus g understood this plague of various sorts of beasts of different forms, and such as had never been seen before. Aben Ezra, on Exodus 8:24 interprets it of evil beasts mixed together, as lions, wolves, bears, and leopards; and Jarchi, on the same place, of serpents and scorpions: the Syriac and Arabic versions here, following the Septuagint, render the word "dog flies"; so called because they were, as Pliny h says, very troublesome to dogs, and so might give the Egyptians greater uneasiness, because they worshipped dogs. God can make use of very mean and contemptible instruments, the least of insects, to plague and distress the most powerful enemies of his people;

which devoured them; corrupted their land, Exodus 8:24, perhaps produced a pestilence, which destroyed many of the inhabitants, or consumed the vegetables of the land; as but a few years ago e, in New England, a sort of insects came out of little holes in the ground, in the form of maggots, and turned to flies, which for the space of two hundred miles poisoned and destroyed all the trees in the country i:

and frogs, which destroyed them; with their stench; see Exodus 8:5, with this plague compare Revelation 16:13, this was the second plague.

e This was written about 1750. Editor. f ערב "mixtionem", Montanus; "miscellam", Vatablus; "a mixed swarm", Ainsworth. g Antiqu. l. 2. c. 14. sect. 3. h Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 34. i See Philosoph. Transact. vol. 2. p. 766. See also p. 781.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He sent divers sorts of flies ... - The account of this plague is found in Exodus 8:24. The word there used is simply “swarm,” without indicating what the swarm was composed of. The rabbis explain the word as denoting a mixture, or a conflux of noxious insects, as if the word were derived from ערב ârab - “to mix.” The Septuagint renders it κυνόμνια kunomnia - “dog-fly” - which Philo describes as so named from its impudence. The common explanation of the word now is that it denotes a species of fly - the gad-fly - exceedingly troublesome to man and beast, and that it derives its name - ערב ârôb - from the verb ערב ârab, in one of its significations to suck, and hence, the allusion to sucking the blood of animals. The word occurs only in the following places, Exodus 8:21-22, Exodus 8:24, Exodus 8:29, Exodus 8:31, where it is rendered swarm, or swarms, and Psalms 105:31, where (as here) it is rendered divers sorts of flies.

And frogs which destroyed them - Exodus 8:6. The order in which the plagues occurred is not preserved in the account in the psalm.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:45. He sent - flies - and frogs — See on Exodus 8:6; Exodus 8:24.


 
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