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title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "James Anderson"
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section: 98 of 159
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 98. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/98/"
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# Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. James Anderson*

Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5.

## 98. Psalm 78 · 2 of 2

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[¶0] 45 He sent among them a mixture which devoured them; And the frog which destroyed them.

[¶1] 46 And he gave to the caterpillar their fruit; And their labors to the locusts.

[¶2] 47 And he destroyed with hail their vine, And their wild fig-trees with hailstones.

[¶3] 48 And he gave lip to the hail their cattle, And their flocks to thunderbolts.

[¶4] 49 He sent upon them the fierceness of his wrath, Fury, anger, and affliction, A mission of evil angels.

[¶5] 50 He made a path for his anger: He kept not from death their soul, And their cattle to the pestilence he shut up.

[¶6] 51 And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt: The beginning of [their] strength in the tents of Ham.

[¶7] 52 And he made to go forth like sheep his people, And led them like a flock in the wilderness.

[¶8] 53 And he conducted them in safety, and they were not afraid: And their enemies cover did the sea.

[¶9] 54 And he brought them to the border of his holiness, This mountain, which his right hand acquired.

[¶10] 55 And he expelled from before their face the heathen; And made them to fall into the lot of all inheritance; And caused to dwell in their tents the children of Israel.

[¶11] 56 But they tempted and provoked God Most High, And his testimonies they kept not.

[¶12] 57 And they turned back and dealt perfidiously like their fathers: They started aside like a bow that is deceitful.

[¶13] 58 And they provoked him to anger with their high places; And with their graven images they moved him to anger.

[¶14] 59 Hear it did God, and was wroth, And he abhorred exceedingly Israel.

[¶15] 60 And he forsook the habitation of Shiloh, The tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

[¶16] 61 And he gave into captivity his strength, And his beauty into the hand of the enemy.

[¶17] 62 And he shut up to the sword his people, And with his own inheritance was wroth.

[¶18] 63 Their chosen devour did the fire, And their virgins were not applauded.

[¶19] 64 Their priests by the sword did fall; And their widows made no lamentation.

[¶20] 65 But the Lord awoke as one asleep, As a mighty man who crieth out by reason of wine.

[¶21] 66 And he smote his enemies behind; Everlasting disgrace he put upon them.

[¶22] 67 And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, And the tribe of Ephraim he chose not:

[¶23] 68 But he chose the tribe of Judah, The mountain of Zion, which he loved:

[¶24] 69 And built like high places his sanctuary, Like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

[¶25] 70 And he chose David his servant, And took him from the folds of sheep:

[¶26] 71 From following the suckling ewes he took him, To feed Jacob his people, And Israel his inheritance:

[¶27] 72 And he fed them in the integrity of his heart, And by the prudence of his hands he guided there.