Psalm 78:40 {77:40}
Good News Translation
How often they rebelled against him in the desert; how many times they made him sad!

New Revised Standard Version
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

Contemporary English Version
While they were in the desert, they often rebelled and made God sad.

New American Bible
How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

how oft

Psalm 78:17 And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

Psalm 95:8-10 To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: . . .

Psalm 106:14-33 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. . . .

Numbers 14:11 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?

Deuteronomy 9:21,22 And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took, and burned it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, until it was as small as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the mountain. . . .

provoke him.

Isaiah 7:13 And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also?

Isaiah 63:10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:15-17 While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation. . . .

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
39And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not. 40How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?41And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.…
Cross References
Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:16
For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Exodus 23:21
Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.

Psalm 78:56
Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

Psalm 95:8
To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

Psalm 95:9
As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

Psalm 95:10
Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

Psalm 106:14
And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

Psalm 106:33
Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.

Psalm 106:43
Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

Psalm 107:11
Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:

Isaiah 63:10
But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Ezekiel 6:9
And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house.

Psalm 78:39
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