Psalm 78:44
New International Version
He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.

New Living Translation
For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams.

English Standard Version
He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.

Berean Standard Bible
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

King James Bible
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

New King James Version
Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink.

New American Standard Bible
And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

NASB 1995
And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink.

NASB 1977
And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink.

Legacy Standard Bible
And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink.

Amplified Bible
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

Christian Standard Bible
He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

American Standard Version
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he turned their rivers to blood, and their streams, that they would not drink the waters.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink.

Contemporary English Version
He turned the rivers of Egypt into blood, and no one could drink from the streams.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might, not drink.

English Revised Version
And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He turned their rivers into blood so that they could not drink from their streams.

Good News Translation
He turned the rivers into blood, and the Egyptians had no water to drink.

International Standard Version
He turned their rivers into blood and made their streams undrinkable.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And turned their rivers into blood, So that they could not drink their streams.

Literal Standard Version
And He turns their streams to blood, | And they do not drink their floods.

Majority Standard Bible
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

New American Bible
God turned their rivers to blood; their streams they could not drink.

NET Bible
He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

New Revised Standard Version
He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.

New Heart English Bible
he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

Webster's Bible Translation
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

World English Bible
he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

Young's Literal Translation
And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.

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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
43when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan. 44He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink. 45He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.…

Cross References
Revelation 16:4
And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood.

Exodus 7:20
Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.

Psalm 105:29
He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.


Treasury of Scripture

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

Psalm 105:29
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

Exodus 7:17-21
Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood…

Revelation 16:3-6
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea…

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














Verse 44. - And had turned their rivers into blood (see Exodus 7:19, 20). "Their rivers" are the many branches of the Nile, some natural, some artificial (Herod., 2:17), by which Lower Egypt is traversed. And their floods; or, their streams; i.e. the smaller canals, which diffused the Nile water over the entire land. That they could not drink (see Exodus 7:21).

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Hebrew
He turned
וַיַּהֲפֹ֣ךְ (way·ya·hă·p̄ōḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

their rivers
יְאֹרֵיהֶ֑ם (yə·’ō·rê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris

to blood,
לְ֭דָם (lə·ḏām)
Preposition | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

and from their streams
וְ֝נֹזְלֵיהֶ֗ם (wə·nō·zə·lê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5140: To flow, trickle, drop, distill

they could not
בַּל־ (bal-)
Adverb
Strong's 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest

drink.
יִשְׁתָּיֽוּן׃ (yiš·tā·yūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 8354: To imbibe


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