Psalms 78:17
15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
16 He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
18 They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
- KJV
- And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
- WEB
- Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
- ASV
- Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
- DARBY
- Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
- BLB
- And they added still to sin against Him by rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
- ÅB
- Men de ble enda ved å synde mot ham, å være gjenstridige mot den Høyeste i ørkenen.
- OTB
- Likevel fortsatte de å synde mot Ham,
Gjorde opprør mot Den Høyeste i ørkenen. - B1930
- Men de blev ennu ved å synde mot ham, å være gjenstridige mot den Høieste i ørkenen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
Read in contextHebrews 3:16–19
For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:8
At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
Read in contextPsalms 106:13–32
Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Read in contextPsalms 95:8–10
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:12–22
And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
Read in contextPsalms 78:32
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
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