Psalms 78:40

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Psalms 78:38–42 · Berean Standard Bible

38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

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Psalms 78:17

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalms 95:8

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

Psalms 95:9

where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Psalms 95:10

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

Psalms 106:14

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

Psalms 106:15

So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

Psalms 106:16

In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

Psalms 106:17

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

Psalms 106:18

Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

Psalms 106:19

At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

Psalms 106:20

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Psalms 106:21

They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

Psalms 106:22

wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

Psalms 106:23

So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Psalms 106:24

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

Psalms 106:25

They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

Psalms 106:26

So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

Psalms 106:27

to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

Psalms 106:28

They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

Psalms 106:29

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Psalms 106:30

But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

Psalms 106:31

It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

Psalms 106:32

At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

Psalms 106:33

For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

Numbers 14:11

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Deuteronomy 9:21

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:22

You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

Isaiah 7:13

Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:15

As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

Hebrews 3:16

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?