Psalms 78:17
And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
In Context
16And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers.
18And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:8even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah sheweth Himself angry against you — to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 31:27for I — I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.
Psalms 95:8Harden not your heart as [in] Meribah, As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Isaiah 63:10And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.
Hebrews 3:16for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;
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 →