Psalms 78 · Verse 40

Psalms 78:40

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Psalms 78:40, King James Version

Psalms 78:40 in other translations

BSBHow often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
WEBHow often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
ASVHow oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
YLTHow often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?
DARBYHow oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
BBEHow frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!
WebsterHow oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

What does Psalms 78:40 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 78:40-41
40-41. There were ten temptations (Nu 14:22).

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 78:40-55
Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be discouraged from repentance. The Holy One of Israel will do what is most for his own glory, and what is most for their good. Their forgetting former favours, led them to limit God for the future. God made his own people to go forth like sheep; and guided them in the wilderness, as a shepherd his flock, with all care and tenderness. Thus the true Joshua, even Jesus, brings his church out of the wilderness; but no earthly Canaan, no worldly advantages, should make us forget that the church is in the wilderness while in this world, and that there remaineth a far more glorious rest for the people of God.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 78:40 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.

כַּ֭מָּהKa.mahhow often!H4100
יַמְר֣וּהוּyam.Ru.huthey rebelled against himH4784
בַמִּדְבָּ֑רva.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
יַ֝עֲצִיב֗וּהוּya.'a.tzi.Vu.huthey grieved himH6087
בִּֽישִׁימֽוֹן\׃Bi.shi.Monin a desolate placeH3452

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Cross references for Psalms 78:40

  • Ephesians 4:30

    And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

  • 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:

  • 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 3:15-17

    While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 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?

  • Numbers 14:11

    And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

  • Psalms 78:17

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

  • Psalms 107:11

    Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

  • Psalms 106:14-33

    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. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. …

  • Deuteronomy 9:21-22

    And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth–hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

  • Isaiah 7:13

    And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How oft.
17; 95:8-10; 106:14-33; Nu 14:11; De 9:21,22
provoke him. or, rebel against him. grieve.
Isa 7:13; 63:10; Eph 4:30; Heb 3:15-17

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Context

  • Psalms 78:39

    For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

  • Psalms 78:40

    How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

  • Psalms 78:41

    Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

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Psalms 78:40 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¡Cuántas veces lo ensañaron en el desierto, lo enojaron en la soledad!
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Que de fois ils l’irritèrent dans le désert, et le provoquèrent dans le lieu désolé!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wie oft waren sie widerspenstig gegen ihn in der Wüste, betrübten ihn in der Einöde!