Psalms 78:49

His raging anger lashed out against them, ¹  He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster. ² 

1Ki 22:21,22; Job 1:12; Job 2:6,7; Job 20:23; Ps 11:6; Isa 42:25; La 4:11; Zep 3:8; Ro 2:8,9

¹ tn Heb “he sent against them the rage of his anger.” The phrase “rage of his anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81.

² tn Heb “fury and indignation and trouble, a sending of messengers of disaster.”