44. And had turned their rivers into blood. The
waters had been made the means of the destruction of Israel’s newborn infants,
and now they do as it were betray the crime—they blush for it, they avenge it
on the murderers. The Nile was the vitality of Egypt, its true life-blood, but
at God’s command it became a flowing curse; every drop of it was a horror,
poison to drink, and terror to gaze on. Sometimes the Almighty One has allowed
people to make rivers crimson with gore, and this is a severer judgment; but
the event now before us was more mysterious, more general, more complete, and
must therefore have been a plague of the first magnitude. And their floods, that they could not drink. Lesser streams partook in the curse, reservoirs
and canals felt the evil; God does nothing by halves. All Egypt boasted of the
sweet waters of their river, but they were made to loathe it more than they had
ever loved it. Our mercies may soon become our miseries if the Lord deals with
us in wrath.
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