Psalms 78:59
God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
In Context
58For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.
60And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;
Cross References
Leviticus 20:23And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Deuteronomy 32:19And the LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.
Psalms 14:2The LORD looked forth from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any man of understanding, that did seek after God.
Lamentations 2:7The Lord hath cast off His altar, He hath abhorred His sanctuary, He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
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 →