Psalms 78:40
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
In Context
39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:7Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
Psalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalms 95:8do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
Psalms 107:11because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
Hebrews 3:15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
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 →