Psalms 78:40
How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
In Context
39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away, and comes not again.
41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:7Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until all of you came unto this place, all of you have been rebellious against the LORD.
Psalms 78:8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Psalms 95:8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Psalms 107:11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Hebrews 3:15While it is said, To day if all of you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
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 →