Psalms 78 · Verse 58

Psalms 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 78:58, King James Version

Psalms 78:58 in other translations

BSBThey enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
WEBFor they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
ASVFor they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
YLTAnd make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,
DARBYAnd they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
BBEThey made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.
WebsterFor they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

What does Psalms 78:58 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
58. Idolatry resulted from sparing the heathen (compare Psa 78:9-11).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 78:56-72

After the Israelites were settled in Canaan, the children were like their fathers. God gave them his testimonies, but they turned back. Presumptuous sins render even Israelites hateful to God's holiness, and exposed to his justice. Those whom the Lord forsakes become an easy prey to the destroyer. And sooner or later, God will disgrace his enemies. He set a good government over his people; a monarch after his own…

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Psalms 78:58 in the original Hebrew

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וַיַּכְעִיס֥וּהוּvai.yakh.'i.Su.huand they provoked to anger himH3707
בְּבָמוֹתָ֑םbe.va.mo.Tamby high places theirH1116
וּ֝בִפְסִילֵיהֶ֗םu.vif.si.lei.Hemand by idols theirH6456
יַקְנִיאֽוּהוּ\׃yak.ni.'U.huthey made jealous himH7065

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Cross references for Psalms 78:58

  • Deuteronomy 32:21

    They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

  • Leviticus 26:30

    And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:22

    Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

  • 1 Kings 12:31

    And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

  • Deuteronomy 32:16-17

    They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

  • 1 Kings 11:7

    Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • Judges 2:11-12

    And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim: And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

  • Exodus 20:4-5

    Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

  • Deuteronomy 12:2

    Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

  • Exodus 34:14

    For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

  • Hosea 13:2

    And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Judges 2:17

    And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
their high.
Le 26:30; Nu 33:52; De 12:2,4; Eze 20:28,29
moved.
79:5; Ex 34:14; De 32:16,17,21; Jud 2:12,20; Eze 8:3-5; 1Co 10:22
with.
97:7; Ex 20:4,5; De 4:16-25; 27:15; Jud 2:11,17; 10:6; 1Ki 11:7,10
1Ki 12:31; Jer 8:19; Ho 13:2

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Context

  • Psalms 78:57

    But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

  • Psalms 78:58

    For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

  • Psalms 78:59

    When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

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Psalms 78:58 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y enojáronlo con sus altos, y provocáronlo á celo con sus esculturas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils le provoquèrent à colère par leurs hauts lieux, et l’émurent à jalousie par leurs images taillées.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie erbitterten ihn durch ihre Höhen und reizten ihn zur Eifersucht durch ihre geschnitzten Bilder.