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Psalms 78:56

54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

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BSB
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
KJV
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
WEB
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,
ASV
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
DARBY
But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
BLB
And they tested and provoked El-Elyon, and His testimonies they did not keep.
ÅB
Men de fristet Gud, den Høyeste, og var gjenstridige mot ham, og de aktet ikke på hans vitnesbyrd.
OTB
Likevel fristet og gjorde de opprør mot Den Høyeste Gud
Og holdt ikke Hans forskrifter,
B1930
Men de fristet Gud, den Høieste, og var gjenstridige mot ham, og de aktet ikke på hans vidnesbyrd.

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Cross references

  • Judges 2:11–12

    And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

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  • Deuteronomy 31:16–20

    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

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  • Psalms 78:40–41

    How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

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  • Deuteronomy 32:15–21

    But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

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  • 2 Kings 17:7–23

    All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

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  • Nehemiah 9:25–26

    They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

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  • Ezekiel 16:15–26

    But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.

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