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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:17

In 11 translations

BSB
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
KJV
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
WEB
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
ASV
Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
LSV
And they still add to sin against Him, || To provoke the Most High in the dry place.
YLT
And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.
DBY
Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
DRC77:17
And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.
GNV
Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,
JPS
Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
LXXE77:17
And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיּוֹסִ֣יפוּ ע֭וֹד לַחֲטֹא־ל֑וֹ לַֽמְר֥וֹת עֶ֝לְי֗וֹן בַּצִּיָּֽה׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
LXX-Br77:17
Καὶ προσέθεντο ἔτι τοῦ ἁμαρτάνειν αὐτῷ· παρεπικραναν τὸν ὕψιστον ἐν ἀνύδρῳ,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
  • Hebrews 3:16–19For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to…
  • Deuteronomy 9:8At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
  • Psalms 106:13–32Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel. They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert. So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them. In the camp…
  • Deuteronomy 9:12–22And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They…
  • Psalms 95:8–10do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness, where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work. For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I…
  • Psalms 78:32In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

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