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Psalms 78:58

What does Psalms 78:58 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 78:58 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Not available in this translation

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Context

v.57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

v.58This passage

v.59When God heardthis, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 13:2

    And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Deuteronomy 32:21

    They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

  • Deuteronomy 4:16

    lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

  • Ezekiel 8:3

    And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

  • Judges 2:20

    And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

  • 1 Kings 11:10

    and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which Jehovah commanded.

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