Psalms 78:59
When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
In Context
58They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.
60So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;
Cross References
Leviticus 20:23And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.
Deuteronomy 32:19And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
Psalms 14:2The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
Lamentations 2:7The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 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: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →