Psalms 78:40
But how often they rebelled in the desert, and caused him grief in the wilderness,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
In Context
39So he remembered that they were but flesh, breath that passes and does not return.
41tempting God again and again, provoking the Holy One of Israel.
Cross References
Psalms 78:8and not be like their ancestors, a generation defiant and stubborn, a generation with heart unsteady, and spirit unfaithful towards God.
Psalms 95:8“Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, or at Massah, that day in the desert,
Psalms 107:11for rebelling against God’s word, and spurning the Most High’s counsel.
Hebrews 3:15To use the words of scripture – ‘If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’
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 →