Psalms 78:40
How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
In Context
39And He remembereth that they [are] flesh, A wind going on — and it returneth not.
41Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:7'Remember — do not forget — that [with] which thou hast made Jehovah thy God wroth in the wilderness; even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till your coming in unto this place rebels ye have been with Jehovah;
Psalms 78:8And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God [is] its spirit.
Psalms 95:8Harden not your heart as [in] Meribah, As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Psalms 107:11Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.
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 3:15in its being said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden 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 →