Psalms 78 · Verse 41

Psalms 78:41

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:41, King James Version

Psalms 78:41 in other translations

BSBAgain and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
WEBThey turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
ASVAnd they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
YLTYea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.
DARBYAnd they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
BBEAgain they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
WebsterYes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

What does Psalms 78:41 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 78:40-41

40-41. There were ten temptations (Nu 14:22).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 41 Limited the Holy One of Israel - The Chaldee translates, "And the Holy One of Israel they signed with a sign." The Hebrew word התוו hithvu is supposed to come from the root תוה tavah, which signifies to mark; and hence the letter ת tau, which in the ancient Hebrew character had the form of a cross X, had its name probably because it was used as a mark. Mr. Bate observes that in hithpael it signifies to challenge or accuse; as one who gives his quark or pledge upon a trial, and causes his adversary to do the same. Here it most obviously means an insult offered to God.

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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…

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Psalms 78:41 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.

וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּvai.ya.Shu.vuand they returnedH7725
וַיְנַסּ֣וּvay.na.Suand they put to [the] testH5254
אֵ֑ל'ElGodH410
וּקְד֖וֹשׁu.ke.Do.oshand [the] holy [one] ofH6918
יִשְׂרָאֵ֣לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
הִתְווּ\׃hit.vuthey painedH8428

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Cross references for Psalms 78:41

  • Numbers 14:22

    Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

  • Hebrews 3:8-11

    Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

  • Acts 7:39

    To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

  • Deuteronomy 6:16

    Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

  • 2 Peter 2:21-22

    For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

  • Numbers 14:4

    And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

  • Psalms 78:19-20

    Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

  • 2 Kings 19:22

    Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Psalms 89:18

    For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

  • Mark 5:35-36

    While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further? As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.

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Yea.
Nu 14:4,22; De 6:16; Ac 7:39; Heb 3:8-11; 2Pe 2:21,22
limited.
19,20; Mr 5:35,36

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Context

  • 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.

  • Psalms 78:42

    They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

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Psalms 78:41 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y volvían, y tentaban á Dios, y ponían límite al Santo de Israel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et ils recommencèrent et tentèrent ✶Dieu, et affligèrent le Saint d’Israël:
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und sie versuchten Gott wiederum und kränkten den Heiligen Israels.