Psalms 78:40

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?

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  • Eph 4:30 : 30 and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
  • Ps 95:8-9 : 8 Harden not your heart as `in' Meribah, As `in' the day of Massah in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work. 10 Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'
  • Isa 63:10 : 10 And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.
  • Ps 106:14-33 : 14 And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert. 15 And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul. 16 And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one. 17 Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram. 18 And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked. 19 They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image, 20 And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs. 21 They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt, 22 Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph. 23 And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying. 24 And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word. 25 And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah. 26 And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness, 27 And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands. 28 And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead, 29 And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them, 30 And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained, 31 And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age. 32 And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes, 33 For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.
  • Ps 107:11 : 11 Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?
  • Heb 3:15-17 : 15 in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,' 16 for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses; 17 but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
  • Num 14:11 : 11 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?
  • Deut 9:21-22 : 21 and your sin, which ye have made -- the calf -- I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it `is' small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount. 22 `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:
  • Ps 78:17 : 17 And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

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  • Ps 78:17-20
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    84%

    17And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

    18And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

    19And they speak against God -- they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

    20Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also -- bread `is' He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

  • Ps 78:41-42
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    41Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

    42They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary.

  • Heb 3:16-17
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    16for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

    17but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

  • Ps 106:14
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    14And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

  • Ps 78:56
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    56And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

  • Heb 3:8-11
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    8ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

    9in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

    10wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

    11so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')

  • Ps 106:43-44
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    43Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

    44And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

  • Ps 78:38-39
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    38And He -- the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury.

    39And He remembereth that they `are' flesh, A wind going on -- and it returneth not.

  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8Harden not your heart as `in' Meribah, As `in' the day of Massah in the wilderness,

    9Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

    10Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

  • Acts 13:18
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    18and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,

  • Num 14:11
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    11And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?

  • Ps 106:32-33
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    32And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

    33For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

  • Isa 63:10
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    10And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.

  • Ps 78:58
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    58And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

  • Deut 9:22
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    22`And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

  • Neh 9:18
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    18`Also, when they have made to themselves a molten calf, and say, this `is' thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and do great despisings,

  • 1 Cor 10:5
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    5but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

  • Deut 32:16
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    16They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    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;

    8even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah sheweth Himself angry against you -- to destroy you.

  • Num 14:22
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    22for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice --

  • Ps 106:29
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    29And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

  • Ps 78:34
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    34If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,

  • Ps 78:30-32
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    30They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet `is' their food in their mouth,

    31And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.

    32With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.

  • Ps 78:11
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    11And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them.

  • Ps 106:24-26
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    24And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

    25And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

    26And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

  • Neh 9:26
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    26`And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,

  • Jer 2:6
    73%

    6And have not said, Where `is' Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'

  • Neh 9:16
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    16`And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

  • Exod 16:2
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    2And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

  • Exod 17:2-3
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    2and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? -- ye strive with me, what? -- ye try Jehovah?'

    3and the people thirst there for water, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, `Why `is' this? -- thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to put us to death, also our sons and our cattle, with thirst.'

  • Num 32:13
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    13and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He causeth them to wander in the wilderness forty years, until the consumption of all the generation which is doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.