Psalms 78:17
And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
In Context
16He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.
18Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:8Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.
Deuteronomy 31:27For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?
Psalms 95:8Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
Isaiah 63:10But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.
Hebrews 3:16Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:10-40
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime… Read the whole commentary →