Psalms 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
World English 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 wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:7Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
Psalms 78:8and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Psalms 95:8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Psalms 107:11because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
Hebrews 3:15while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as 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 →