Psalms 78 · Verse 17

Psalms 78:17

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Psalms 78:17, King James Version

Psalms 78:17 in other translations

BSBBut they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
WEBYet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
ASVYet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
YLTAnd they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.
DARBYYet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
BBEAnd they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;
WebsterAnd they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

What does Psalms 78:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 78:17-20
17-20. yet more--literally, "added to sin," instead of being led to repentance (Ro 2:4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 78:9-39

Sin dispirits men, and takes away the heart. Forgetfulness of God's works is the cause of disobedience to his laws. This narrative relates a struggle between God's goodness and man's badness. The Lord hears all our murmurings and distrusts, and is much displeased. Those that will not believe the power of God's mercy, shall feel the fire of his indignation. Those cannot be said to trust in God's salvation as their…

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Psalms 78:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיּוֹסִ֣יפוּvai.yo.Si.fuand they repeatedH3254
ע֭וֹדodagainH5750
לַחֲטֹא\־la.cha.to'-to sinH2398
ל֑וֹloto him
לַֽמְר֥וֹתlam.Rotby rebelling againstH4784
עֶ֝לְי֗וֹןel.Yon[the] Most HighH5945
בַּצִּיָּֽה\׃ba.tzi.Yahin the dry regionH6723

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 78:17

  • Isaiah 63:10

    But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

  • Hebrews 3:16-19

    For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

  • Deuteronomy 9:8

    Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.

  • Psalms 106:13-32

    They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord. …

  • Psalms 95:8-10

    Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

  • Deuteronomy 9:12-22

    And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. …

  • Psalms 78:32

    For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
32; 95:8-10; 106:13-32; De 9:8,12-22; Heb 3:16-19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 78:16

    He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

  • Psalms 78:17

    And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

  • Psalms 78:18

    And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

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Psalms 78:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Empero aun tornaron á pecar contra él, enojando en la soledad al Altísimo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils péchèrent de nouveau contre lui, irritant le Très-haut dans le désert;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Doch sie fuhren weiter fort, wider ihn zu sündigen, indem sie gegen den Höchsten widerspenstig waren in der Wüste.