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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:41

In 11 translations

BSB
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
KJV
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
WEB
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
ASV
And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
LSV
Indeed, they turn back, and try God, || And have limited the Holy One of Israel.
YLT
Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.
DBY
And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.El
DRC77:41
And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.
GNV
Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.
JPS
And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.
LXXE77:41
Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּ וַיְנַסּ֣וּ אֵ֑ל וּקְד֖וֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל הִתְווּ׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
LXX-Br77:41
αὐτὸν ἐν γῇ ἀνύδρῳ; Καὶ ἐπέστρεψαν καὶ ἐπείρασαν τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ τὸν ἅγιον τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ παρώξυναν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 14:22not 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—
  • Hebrews 3:8–11do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and…
  • Acts 7:39But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
  • Deuteronomy 6:16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
  • Psalms 78:19–20They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
  • Numbers 14:4So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
  • 2 Peter 2:21–22It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to…
  • 2 Kings 19:22Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  • Psalms 89:18Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
  • Mark 5:35–36While He was still speaking, messengers from the house of Jairus arrived and said, “Your daughter is dead; why bother the Teacher anymore?” But Jesus overheard their conversation and said to Jairus, “Do not be afraid;…

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