Psalm 78:41
New International Version
Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.

New Living Translation
Again and again they tested God’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

English Standard Version
They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

King James Bible
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

New King James Version
Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
Again and again they tempted God, And pained the Holy One of Israel.

NASB 1995
Again and again they tempted God, And pained the Holy One of Israel.

NASB 1977
And again and again they tempted God, And pained the Holy One of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Again and again they tested God, And pained the Holy One of Israel.

Amplified Bible
Again and again they tempted God, And distressed the Holy One of Israel.

Christian Standard Bible
They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

American Standard Version
And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they turned back and they tempted God and they provoked The Holy One of Israel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
They kept testing him and caused terrible pain for the Holy One of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

English Revised Version
And they turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Again and again they tested God, and they pushed the Holy One of Israel to the limit.

Good News Translation
Again and again they put God to the test and brought pain to the Holy God of Israel.

International Standard Version
They tested God again and again, provoking the Holy One of Israel.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And still again they tried God, And set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.

Literal Standard Version
Indeed, they turn back, and try God, | And have limited the Holy One of Israel.

Majority Standard Bible
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

New American Bible
Again and again they tested God, provoked the Holy One of Israel.

NET Bible
They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
They tested God again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

New Heart English Bible
They turned again and tempted God, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

World English Bible
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! 41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,…

Cross References
Exodus 17:2
So the people contended with Moses, "Give us water to drink." "Why do you contend with me?" Moses replied. "Why do you test the LORD?"

Numbers 14:22
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness--yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times--

2 Kings 19:22
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Psalm 71:22
So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:18
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Psalm 89:18
Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

year

Numbers 14:4,22
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt…

Deuteronomy 6:16
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Acts 7:39
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

limited

Psalm 78:19,20
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? …

Mark 5:35,36
While 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? …

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














(41) Limited.--A verb used in Ezekiel 9:4 for putting a mark on the forehead, which has been very variously explained. Some render branded or cast a stigma on--i.e., brought discredit on the Divine name. The LXX. and Vulg. have "exasperated," and so some moderns "crossed," "thwarted." Gratz emends to "asked signs from," but perhaps the ideas of marking something that has been tried, and that of trying or tempting are sufficiently near to allow us to render tempted.

Verse 41. - Yea, they turned back and tempted God; rather, again and again they tempted God (Hengstenberg, Kay, Cheyne); see Exodus 17:2, 7; Deuteronomy 6:16. And limited the Holy One of Israel (comp. Numbers 34:7, 8). This may mean either "they set limits to his power in their own minds" (see ver. 20), or "they actually limited his power to help and succour them by their want of faith" (comp. Mark 6:5, "He could there do no mighty work," explained in Matthew 13:58 to have been "because of their unbelief"). The other meanings suggested - "disgraced" and" provoked" - are less probable.

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Hebrew
Again and again
וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּ (way·yā·šū·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

they tested
וַיְנַסּ֣וּ (way·nas·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5254: To test, to attempt

God
אֵ֑ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

and provoked
הִתְווּ׃‪‬ (hiṯ·wū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8428: Probably to pain, wound

the Holy
וּקְד֖וֹשׁ (ū·qə·ḏō·wōš)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6918: Sacred, God, an angel, a saint, a sanctuary

One of Israel.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


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