Psalms 78:40
How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
In Context
39And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.
41And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:7Remember, and forget not how then provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.
Psalms 78:8That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalms 95:8To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
Psalms 107:11Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:
Isaiah 63:10But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Hebrews 3:15While it is said, To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.
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 →