Psalm 78:31
Verse 31 of 72. The 78th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.
27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
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Psalm 78:31 in the World English Bible
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.Read Psalm 78:31 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Psalm 78:31
While the meat was yet in their mouth, rolled under the tongue as a sweet morsel, the wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them (v. 31), those that were most luxurious and most daring. See Num. xi. 33, 34. They were fed as sheep for the slaughter: the butcher takes the fattest first.
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.