Psalms 78:41
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
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,
43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
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
- Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- KJV
- Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
- WEB
- They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- ASV
- And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- DARBY
- And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
- BLB
- And they turned back and tested God, and they pained the Holy One of Israel.
- ÅB
- Og de fristet Gud på ny og krenket Israels Hellige.
- OTB
- Gang på gang fristet de Gud,
Og plaget Israels Hellige. - B1930
- Og de fristet Gud på ny og krenket Israels Hellige.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 14:22
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Read in contextHebrews 3:8–11
do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
Read in contextActs 7:39
But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:16
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
Read in context2 Peter 2:21–22
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
Read in contextNumbers 14:4
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
Read in contextPsalms 78:19–20
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
Read in context2 Kings 19:22
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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