Psalms 78:58

And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

In Context

57And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

59God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:4'Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which [is] in the heavens above, or which [is] in the earth beneath, or which [is] in the waters under the earth.

Leviticus 26:30And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you;

Deuteronomy 4:16lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female —

Deuteronomy 12:2ye do utterly destroy all the places where the nations which ye are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the heights, and under every green tree;

Deuteronomy 27:15'Cursed [is] the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put [it] in a secret place, — and all the people have answered and said, Amen.

Deuteronomy 32:21They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72

Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →

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