Psalms 78:40
38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
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
- How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- KJV
- How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- WEB
- How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
- ASV
- How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
- DARBY
- How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- BLB
- How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness [and] grieved Him in the desert!
- ÅB
- Hvor titt var de ikke gjenstridige mot ham i ørkenen, gjorde ham sorg på de øde steder!
- OTB
- Hvor ofte gjorde de opprør mot Ham i ørkenen,
Og bedrøvet Ham i ødemarken! - B1930
- Hvor titt var de ikke gjenstridige mot ham i ørkenen, gjorde ham sorg på de øde steder!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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 contextIsaiah 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 3:15–17
As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
Read in contextNumbers 14:11
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
Read in contextPsalms 78:17
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Read in contextPsalms 107:11
because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
Read in contextPsalms 106:14–33
They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
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