Psalms 78:44

44 He turned the rivers of Egypt into blood. The people of Egypt couldn't drink water from their streams.

Psalms 78:44 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:44

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 Exodus 7:21 ) , 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 ) ( 16:3-7 ) ,

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 ^F5 observes, were made by the hands of men, from the banks of the river Nile, to water their fields with.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Comment. on Exod. vii. 19. so Kimchi in Sepher Shorash. rad. (ra) .

Psalms 78:44 In-Context

42 They didn't remember his power. They forgot the day he set them free from those who had beaten them down.

43 They forgot how he had shown them his miraculous signs in Egypt. They forgot his miracles in the area of Zoan.

44 He turned the rivers of Egypt into blood. The people of Egypt couldn't drink water from their streams.

45 He sent large numbers of flies that bit them. He sent frogs that destroyed their land.

46 He gave their crops to the grasshoppers. He gave their food to the locusts.