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Psa. 78:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they sinned yet more against him by provokinge the most High in the wilderness.

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Deut. 9:22• ²²And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath. (Deut. 9:22)

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Heb. 3:16‑19• ¹⁶For who having heard provoked? But did not all that came out of Egypt by Moses?
¹⁷And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
¹⁸And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest but to those that disobeyed?
¹⁹And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief. (Heb. 3:16‑19)

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Psa. 78:32• ³²For all this they sinned still,{HR}And believed not in his wondrous works; (Psa. 78:32)

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Psa. 95:8‑10• ⁸Harden not your heart like Meribah,{HR}Like the day of Massah in the wilderness;
⁹When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work.
¹⁰Forty years long was I disgusted with the generation and said,{HR}A people erring in heart [are] they,{HR}And they have not known my ways, (Psa. 95:8‑10)

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Psa. 106:13‑32• ¹³They hasted, they forgot his works,{HR}They waited not for his counsel;
¹⁴And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵And he gave them their request,{HR}And sent leanness into their soul.
¹⁶And they were envious of Moses in the camp,{HR}Of Aaron, saint of Jehovah.
¹⁷Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,{HR}And covered Abiram's company.
¹⁸And a fire burned in their company,{HR}A flame consumed wicked ones.
¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb{HR}And bowed down to a molten image;
²⁰And changed their glory{HR}For the likeness of an ox eating grass.
²¹They forgot God their Saviour{HR}That did great things in Egypt,
²²Wondrous works in Ham's land,{HR}Terrible things at the Red Sea.
²³And he said he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying.
²⁴And they despised the pleasant land,{HR}They believed not his word;
²⁵But they murmured in their tents;{HR}They did not hearken to Jehovah's voice.
²⁶And he lifted up his hand to them,{HR}To make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷And to make their seed fall among the nations,{HR}And to scatter them in the lands.
²⁸And they joined themselves to Baal-Peor{HR}And ate sacrifices of dead (beings).
²⁹And they provoked him by their actions,{HR}And the plague broke out among them.
³⁰Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment,{HR}And the plague was stayed.
³¹And it was reckoned to him for righteousness{HR}To generation and generation for evermore.
³²And they angered him at the waters of Meribah,{HR}And it went ill with Moses on their account, (Psa. 106:13‑32)

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Deut. 9:8,12‑22• ⁸And at Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you, to destroy you,
¹²And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, go down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them: they have made for themselves a molten image.
¹³And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked 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.
¹⁵And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
¹⁶And I saw, and behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God: ye had made for yourselves a molten calf; ye had quickly turned aside from the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
¹⁷And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
¹⁸And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, —I ate no bread and drank no water, —because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
¹⁹For I was afraid of the anger and fury wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. And Jehovah listened unto me also at that time.
²⁰And with Aaron Jehovah was very angry to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
²¹And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, until it became fine dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain.
²²And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath. (Deut. 9:8,12‑22)

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Heb. 3:16‑19• ¹⁶For who having heard provoked? But did not all that came out of Egypt by Moses?
¹⁷And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
¹⁸And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest but to those that disobeyed?
¹⁹And we see that they could not enter in on account 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. (“Psalm 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;

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Yet they still went on to sin against him,{HR}To rebel against the Most High in the desert (dry);