KJV King James Version
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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Psalm 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
WEB World English Bible
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
ASV American Standard Version
And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.
Surrounding context — Psalm 78
38 But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
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Hebrews 3:8-11Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:Numbers 14:22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;Acts 7:39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.Psalm 78:19-20Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?2 Peter 2:21-22For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.Numbers 14:4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.2 Kings 19:22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy [One] of Israel.Mark 5:35-36While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s [house certain] which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?Psalm 89:18For the LORD [is] our defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king.
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