Psalms 78:40

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How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!

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  • Eph 4:30 : 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Ps 95:8-9 : 8 do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen My deeds. 10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.'
  • Isa 63:10 : 10 Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
  • Ps 106:14-33 : 14 In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland. 15 So He gave them what they asked for but sent leanness into their souls. 16 They envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the LORD. 17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the company of Abiram. 18 Fire blazed among their company; flames consumed the wicked. 19 They made a calf at Horeb and worshiped a cast image. 20 They exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass. 21 They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt, 22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds at the Red Sea. 23 So He said He would destroy them had not Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach before Him to turn His wrath away from destroying them. 24 But they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. 25 They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. 26 Therefore, He raised His hand against them to make them fall in the wilderness, 27 to make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. 28 They joined themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods. 29 They provoked the LORD to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. 30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped. 31 It was credited to him as righteousness for all generations to come. 32 By the waters of Meribah, they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them; 33 for they rebelled against His Spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.
  • Ps 107:11 : 11 For they had rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 Then Isaiah said, 'Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also?
  • Heb 3:15-17 : 15 As it is said: 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.' 16 For who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  • Num 14:11 : 11 The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
  • Deut 9:21-22 : 21 Then I took the sinful thing you had made—the calf—and burned it in the fire. I crushed it, grinding it into fine dust, and threw the dust into the stream that flows down from the mountain. 22 You continued to provoke the LORD to anger at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah.
  • Ps 78:17 : 17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling against the Most High in the dry wasteland.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:17-20
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    84%

    17But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling against the Most High in the dry wasteland.

    18They tested God in their hearts by demanding the food they craved.

    19They spoke against God, saying, 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?'

    20True, He struck the rock, and water gushed out, and streams overflowed. But can He also give us bread or provide meat for His people?

  • Ps 78:41-42
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    41Again and again they tested God and limited the Holy One of Israel.

    42They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from their enemy,

  • Heb 3:16-17
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    16For who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

    17And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Ps 106:14
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    14In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland.

  • Ps 78:56
    79%

    56But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep His decrees.

  • Heb 3:8-11
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    8do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,

    9where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works.

    10That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always wandering, and they have not known my ways.'

    11So I swore in my anger, 'They shall not enter my rest.'

  • Ps 106:43-44
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    43Many times He delivered them, but they were rebellious in their plans and sank into their iniquity.

    44Yet He saw their distress when He heard their cry.

  • Ps 78:38-39
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    38Yet He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Time and again, He restrained His anger and did not stir up His full wrath.

    39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

  • Ps 95:8-10
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    77%

    8do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

    9where your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen My deeds.

    10For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.'

  • Acts 13:18
    77%

    18For about forty years He endured their behavior in the wilderness.

  • Num 14:11
    75%

    11The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

  • Ps 106:32-33
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    32By the waters of Meribah, they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them;

    33for they rebelled against His Spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

  • Isa 63:10
    75%

    10Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

  • Ps 78:58
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    58They angered Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22You continued to provoke the LORD to anger at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18Even when they made a molten calf for themselves and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,' and they committed terrible blasphemies,

  • 1 Cor 10:5
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    5But God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

  • Deut 32:16
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    16They made Him jealous with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with detestable practices.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

    8Even at Horeb, you provoked the LORD to anger, and the LORD was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Num 14:22
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    22none of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times,

  • Ps 106:29
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    29They provoked the LORD to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

  • Ps 78:34
    74%

    34When He killed them, they sought Him; they repented and earnestly sought God.

  • Ps 78:30-32
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    30But while the food was still in their mouths, they were not yet free of their craving.

    31Then the anger of God rose against them, and He killed the strongest among them, striking down the young men of Israel.

    32Despite all this, they kept on sinning and did not believe in His wondrous works.

  • Ps 78:11
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    11They forgot His deeds and the wonders He had shown them.

  • Ps 106:24-26
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    24But they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

    25They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

    26Therefore, He raised His hand against them to make them fall in the wilderness,

  • Neh 9:26
    73%

    26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

  • Jer 2:6
    73%

    6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and deep darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

  • Neh 9:16
    73%

    16But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments.

  • Exod 16:2
    72%

    2The entire assembly of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • Exod 17:2-3
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    72%

    2So the people quarreled with Moses, saying, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied to them, "Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?"

    3But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Num 32:13
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    13The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that had done evil in His sight was gone.