Psalms 78:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

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  • Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
  • Num 21:7 : 7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.
  • Judg 3:8-9 : 8 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years. 9 And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
  • Judg 3:12-15 : 12 Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes. 13 And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees. 14 And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years. 15 Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.
  • Judg 4:3 : 3 Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.
  • Judg 10:7-9 : 7 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon. 8 And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down. 9 And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble. 10 Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.
  • Isa 26:6 : 6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.
  • Jer 22:23 : 23 O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

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  • 35 In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

  • 4 But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

  • Ps 78:38-42
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    38 But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

    39 So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

    40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

    41 Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

    42 They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;

  • Ps 78:29-33
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    29 So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

    30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

    31 The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

    32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

    33 So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

  • 27 Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

  • Ps 78:17-18
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    17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

    18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

  • Ps 106:43-44
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    43 Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.

    44 But when their cry came to his ears, he had pity on their trouble:

  • 28 But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;

  • 37 And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

  • 19 But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.

  • 28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

  • Neh 9:17-18
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    69%

    17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

    18 Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

  • 30 When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

  • 29 So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.

  • 6 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;

  • 2 God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

  • 40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

  • 2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

  • 56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

  • 34 And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;

  • 27 And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days,

  • 47 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

  • 6 And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

  • 15 I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

  • 8 You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.

  • 11 They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

  • 26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

  • 14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

  • 8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

  • 28 Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

  • 13 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.

  • 33 When your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers to you and requesting your grace in this house:

  • 19 Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

  • Job 8:4-5
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    4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

    5 If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

  • 16 Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.

  • 3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

  • 10 Then crying out to the Lord, they said, We have done evil, because we have been turned away from the Lord, worshipping the Baals and the Astartes: but now, make us safe from those who are against us and we will be your servants.