Therefore the LORD heard this, and was angry: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
All Commentaries on Psalms 78:21 Go To Psalms 78
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Angry. This is the sense of the Hebrew. Distulit means, "he deferred "(Haydock) to put his threats, (Berthier) or promises, in execution. (Menochius)
The destroyer punished those who gave way to murmuring, 1 Corinthians x., and Numbers xi. 1. (Calmet)
Their incredulity was punished (Worthington) for nearly forty years, and all the guilty who were twenty years old at the first numbering, were cut off in the desert. (Haydock)