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Psalm 78

Psa. 78:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they sinned
chata' (Hebrew #2398)
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Pronounce: khaw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
yet more
yacaph (Hebrew #3254)
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
KJV usage: add, X again, X any more, X cease, X come more, + conceive again, continue, exceed, X further, X gather together, get more, give more-over, X henceforth, increase (more and more), join, X longer (bring, do, make, much, put), X (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, X yet, yield.
Pronounce: yaw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
against him by provoking
marah (Hebrew #4784)
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
KJV usage: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
Pronounce: maw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
e the most High
'elyown (Hebrew #5945)
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
KJV usage: (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).
Pronounce: el-yone'
Origin: from 5927
in the wilderness
tsiyah (Hebrew #6723)
aridity; concretely, a desert
KJV usage: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
Pronounce: tsee-yaw'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to parch
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Deut. 9:22• 22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath. (Deut. 9:22)
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Heb. 3:16‑19• 16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
 17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
 19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (Heb. 3:16‑19)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 78:32• 32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. (Psa. 78:32)
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Psa. 95:8‑10• 8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty 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: (Psa. 95:8‑10)
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Psa. 106:13‑32• 13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
 14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
 15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
 16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.
 17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
 18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
 19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
 20Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
 21They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
 22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
 23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
 24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
 25But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
 26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
 27To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
 28They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
 29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
 30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
 31And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
 32They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: (Psa. 106:13‑32)
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Deut. 9:8,12‑22• 8Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.
 12And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
 13Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
 14Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
 15So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
 16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.
 17And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
 18And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
 19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.
 20And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
 21And 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.
 22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath. (Deut. 9:8,12‑22)
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Heb. 3:16‑19• 16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
 17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
 19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (Heb. 3:16‑19)
• Men speak against God when there are no miracles, and ask. “Why does He not intervene?” They forget that when God wrought miracles before the eyes of men, they spake against God. Miracles and signs do not change the heart of man. Miracles or no miracles, the natural man is unbelieving. (“Psalms 78” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Yet they still went on sinning against him, provokingd the Most High in the desert;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "rebelling against"; and so ver. 40.