Psalms 78:41
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
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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
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Read in contextHebrews 3:8–11
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Read in contextActs 7:39
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:16
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Read in context2 Peter 2:21–22
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Read in contextNumbers 14:4
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Read in contextPsalms 78:19–20
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Read in context2 Kings 19:22
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
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