Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 78:50

50 He made a way to his anger, he spared not their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence.

Heb. He weighed a path or cause-way, (i. e.) He made a most smooth and eaven and exact path as if he had done it by weight and measure, that so his anger might pass swiftly and freely without interruption. The phrase also seems to note the wisdom and justice of God in weighing out their plagues proportionably to their sins, and exercising great severity towards them answerably to their great and barbarous cruelty towards his people.

(i. e.) He punished them with death or killing plagues, as the next words explain it.

Or their beasts. So he speaks of the murrain among their cattel. But our Translation seems better to agree with the next foregoing and following passages which plainly speak of the death of persons.

Marginal references: Heb. He weighed a path.; Or, their beasts to the Murrain, &c.