63 The fire [a]devoured their chosen men, and their maids were not [b]praised.

64 Their Priests fell by the sword, and their [c]widows lamented not.

65 But the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a strong man that after his [d]wine crieth out,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 78:63 They were suddenly destroyed, 1 Sam. 4:10.
  2. Psalm 78:63 They had no marriage songs: that is, they were not married.
  3. Psalm 78:64 Either they were slain before, or taken prisoners of their enemies, and so were forbidden.
  4. Psalm 78:65 Because they were drunken in their sins, they judged God’s patience to be a slumbering, as though he were drunken, therefore he answering their beastly judgment, saith, he will awake and take sudden vengeance.

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