KJV King James Version
When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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Psalm 78:59
When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
WEB World English Bible
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
ASV American Standard Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.
Surrounding context — Psalm 78
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
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Psalm 106:40Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.Lamentations 2:7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.Genesis 18:20-21And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;Psalm 11:4The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.Deuteronomy 32:19And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.Leviticus 20:23And 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 26:44And 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.Psalm 14:2-5The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.Zechariah 11:8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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