Psalms 78:59
God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
In Context
58They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.
60And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
Cross References
Leviticus 20:23Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Deuteronomy 32:19The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
Psalms 14:2The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God.
Lamentations 2:7Zain. The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath cursed his sanctuary: he hath delivered the walls of the towers thereof into the hand of the enemy: they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
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 →