“"He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their substance to the fire." Symmachus renders it: "Who gave up their cattle to the plague, and their possessions to birds." For, having met an overwhelming overthrow, they became a prey for carnivorous birds, But, according to the Seventy, the sense is not that the hail…”
Hippolytus of Rome, 3th c. — Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture - On Psalm LXXVII. Or LXXVIII.
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48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
— Psalms 78:48 —
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;