Psalm 78:59
New International Version
When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.

New Living Translation
When God heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel.

English Standard Version
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

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

New King James Version
When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

New American Standard Bible
When God heard them, He was filled with wrath And He utterly rejected Israel;

NASB 1995
When God heard, He was filled with wrath And greatly abhorred Israel;

NASB 1977
When God heard, He was filled with wrath, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Legacy Standard Bible
God heard and was filled with wrath And greatly rejected Israel;

Amplified Bible
When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath; And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

Christian Standard Bible
God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God heard and became furious; He completely rejected Israel.

American Standard Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Contemporary English Version
So God became furious and completely rejected the people of Israel.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When God heard, he became furious. He completely rejected Israel.

Good News Translation
God was angry when he saw it, so he rejected his people completely.

International Standard Version
God heard and became furious, and he completely rejected Israel.

Majority Standard Bible
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

NET Bible
God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.

New Heart English Bible
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

Webster's Bible Translation
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

World English Bible
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
God has heard, and shows Himself angry. And kicks exceedingly against Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.

Smith's Literal Translation
God heard and he will overflow, and he will greatly contemn in Israel.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version
God listened, and he spurned them, and he reduced Israel greatly, almost to nothing.

New American Bible
God heard and grew angry; he rejected Israel completely.

New Revised Standard Version
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And God heard and was provoked and was very angry against Israel.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
God heard, and was wroth, And He greatly abhorred Israel;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. 59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely. 60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.…

Cross References
Judges 2:12-14
Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. / Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

Deuteronomy 32:19-21
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters. / He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness. / They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

Jeremiah 7:29-31
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’ / For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it. / They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

2 Kings 17:18-20
So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained, / and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced. / So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.

Hosea 9:15
All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

1 Samuel 28:18
Because you did not obey the LORD or carry out His burning anger against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.

Lamentations 2:6-7
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest. / The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

Zechariah 7:11-14
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. / They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts. / And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts. ...

Romans 1:18
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

Hebrews 3:10-11
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ / So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

1 Corinthians 10:5-6
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. / These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

Revelation 2:4-5
But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love. / Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

Matthew 23:37-38
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate.


Treasury of Scripture

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

God

Psalm 11:4
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Psalm 14:2-5
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God…

Genesis 18:20,21
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; …

greatly

Psalm 106:40
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Leviticus 20:23
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Leviticus 26:44
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














When God heard this
This phrase indicates a divine response to human actions. The Hebrew root for "heard" is "שָׁמַע" (shama), which implies not just hearing but also understanding and responding. In the context of Psalm 78, it reflects God's attentiveness to the behavior of His people. Historically, this underscores the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where God is actively engaged with His people, listening to their cries, and responding to their faithfulness or rebellion.

He was furious
The word "furious" comes from the Hebrew "עָבַר" (abar), which can mean to overflow or to be exceedingly angry. This reflects God's righteous indignation towards sin and disobedience. In a conservative Christian perspective, this serves as a reminder of God's holiness and justice. His anger is not capricious but is a response to the violation of His covenant and the moral order He established.

and He rejected Israel completely
The term "rejected" is derived from the Hebrew "מָאַס" (ma'as), meaning to despise or refuse. This is a strong expression of divine disapproval. The historical context here is crucial; Israel's repeated disobedience led to God's rejection, which is a theme seen throughout the Old Testament. However, this rejection is not final or absolute, as God's covenant promises include eventual restoration. This phrase serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of turning away from God, yet it also points to the hope of redemption and restoration through repentance and faith.

Verse 59. - When God heard this, he was wroth (comp. above, ver. 21). And greatly abhorred Israel. Not Israel, as distinct from Judah, but Israel in the broadest sense, the entire nation, as in ver. 55.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
On hearing it,
שָׁמַ֣ע (šā·ma‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

God
אֱ֭לֹהִים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

was furious
וַֽיִּתְעַבָּ֑ר (way·yiṯ·‘ab·bār)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

and rejected
וַיִּמְאַ֥ס (way·yim·’as)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3988: To spurn, to disappear

Israel
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

completely.
מְ֝אֹ֗ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily


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