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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 106:7

Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders, and remembered not the multitude of thy mercy; but provoked him as they went up by the Red Sea.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Forgetting God;   Ingratitude;   Prayer;   Red Sea;   Unbelief;   Thompson Chain Reference - Discernment-Dullness;   Dullness;   Provoking God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Forgetting God;   Ingratitude to God;   Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Sea;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Patience;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Red Sea (Reed Sea);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallelujah;   Psalms;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sea;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Moloch;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sea;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Miracle;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 20;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Our ancestors in Egypt were not impressed by the Lord 's miraculous deeds. They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them. Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.
English Revised Version
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Update Bible Version
Our fathers did not understand your wonders in Egypt; They did not remember the multitude of your loving-kindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
New Century Version
Our ancestors in Egypt did not learn from your miracles. They did not remember all your kindnesses, so they turned against you at the Red Sea.
New English Translation
Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.
Webster's Bible Translation
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him] at the sea, [even] at the Red sea.
World English Bible
Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Amplified Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles; They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts, But they were rebellious at the sea, at the Red Sea.
English Standard Version
Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure fadris in Egipt vndirstoden not thi merueils; thei weren not myndeful of the multitude of thi merci. And thei stiynge in to the see, in to the reed see, terreden to wraththe;
Berean Standard Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
Contemporary English Version
When they were in Egypt, they paid no attention to your marvelous deeds or your wonderful love. And they turned against you at the Red Sea.
American Standard Version
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Bible in Basic English
Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Complete Jewish Bible
Our ancestors in Egypt failed to grasp the meaning of your wonders. They didn't keep in mind your great deeds of grace but rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Suf.
Darby Translation
Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord, our ancestors learned nothing from the miracles you did in Egypt. They forgot your kindness at the Red Sea and rebelled against you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Our fathers in Egypt gave no heed unto Thy wonders; {N}but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
King James Version (1611)
Our fathers vnderstood not thy wonders in Egypt, they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies: but prouoked him at the sea, euen at the Red-sea.
New Life Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your powerful works. They did not remember how many times You showed Your loving-kindness. But they turned against You by the sea, the Red Sea.
New Revised Standard
Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.
George Lamsa Translation
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Good News Translation
Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God's wonderful acts; they forgot the many times he showed them his love, and they rebelled against the Almighty at the Red Sea.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our fathers, in Egypt, understood not thy wonders, They remembered not the abounding of thy lovingkindnesses, but rebelled by the sea - at the Red Sea.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(105-7) Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.
Revised Standard Version
Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider thy wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of thy steadfast love, but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt, neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes: but they rebelled at the sea, euen at the red sea.
Christian Standard Bible®
Our fathers in Egypt did not graspthe significance of your wondrous worksor remember your many acts of faithful love;instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.
Hebrew Names Version
Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Mitzrayim. They didn't remember the multitude of your lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Sea of Suf.
King James Version
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Lexham English Bible
Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works. They did not remember your many acts of loyal love, and so they rebelled by the sea at the Red Sea.
Literal Translation
Our fathers did not ponder Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember Your many mercies, and they rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.
Young's Literal Translation
Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oure fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egipte, they kepte not thy greate goodnesse in remebraunce: but were dishobediet at the see, eue at the reed see.
New American Standard Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
New King James Version
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, But rebelled by the sea--the Red Sea.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Legacy Standard Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not consider Your wondrous deeds;They did not remember Your abundant lovingkindnesses,But they rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

Contextual Overview

6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously. 7 Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders, and remembered not the multitude of thy mercy; but provoked him as they went up by the Red Sea. 8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might cause his mighty power to be known. 9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness. 10 And he saved them out of the hand of them that hated them, and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy. 11 The water covered those that oppressed them: there was not one of them left. 12 Then they believed his words, and celebrated his praise.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Our: Deuteronomy 29:4, Deuteronomy 32:28, Deuteronomy 32:29, Proverbs 1:22, Isaiah 44:18, Mark 4:12, Mark 8:17-21, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

they: Psalms 78:42, Psalms 105:5, Deuteronomy 15:15, Ephesians 2:11

multitude: Psalms 106:45, Psalms 5:7, Psalms 51:1, Isaiah 63:7, Lamentations 3:32

but: Exodus 14:11, Exodus 14:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:21 - the Lord Exodus 16:2 - General Numbers 14:19 - and as thou Deuteronomy 8:2 - remember Deuteronomy 26:8 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 21:13 - great Ezra 9:7 - Since the days Nehemiah 9:2 - confessed Nehemiah 9:10 - showedst Nehemiah 9:17 - mindful Nehemiah 9:19 - in thy Psalms 78:8 - as their Psalms 103:2 - forget not Isaiah 42:20 - Seeing Isaiah 43:27 - first father Isaiah 63:9 - in his Isaiah 65:7 - Your iniquities Jeremiah 3:25 - we and our Jeremiah 7:24 - they Jeremiah 32:30 - children Micah 6:4 - I brought Zechariah 1:4 - as John 10:6 - they understood not Acts 7:25 - but Acts 13:17 - and with 1 Corinthians 10:1 - and all

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt,.... Or, "our fathers in Egypt" l; while they were there, they did not understand, or wisely consider and attend unto, the miracles there wrought, the plagues inflicted on the Egyptians. These were done in their sight, they saw them with their eyes; yet had not hearts to perceive them, and understand the true use and design of them: not only that these were for the destruction of their enemies, and for their deliverance from them; but that they were proofs of the power of God, and of his being the one only and true God, in opposition to the idols of the Egyptians; and that he only ought to be adhered unto, worshipped, and trusted in. Had they adverted to these things, they would not so easily have given in to a murmuring and repining spirit, to a distrust of the power and providence of God, and to idolatry, as they did; see Deuteronomy 29:2, something of this kind may be observed in the disciples of Christ, Mark 6:52.

They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; the mercies of God bestowed on his people are many, both temporal and spiritual; there is a multitude of them; the sum of them is great, it cannot well be said how great it is: but though they are so many as not to be reckoned up in order, yet a grateful remembrance of them should be kept up; it is sinful to forget them, and argues great ingratitude. Past mercies should be remembered, both for the glory of God, and to encourage faith and hope in him, with respect to future ones, as well as to preserve from sinning against him. The stupidity and ingratitude of this people, here confessed, were the source of their rebellion against God, as follows:

but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea; or, "sea of Suph" m; so called, either from a city of this name, which it washed, as Hillerus n thinks; see Numbers 21:14 or from the sedge and weeds in it, or reeds and rushes that grew upon the banks of it. When they were come hither, though just brought out of Egyptian bondage, and had seen the wonders the Lord had done; and though now in the utmost distress, the Egyptian army behind them, and the sea before them; yet neither past mercies nor present danger could keep them from rebelling against the Lord. They provoked him by their language to Moses;

because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Exodus 14:11. The Targum is,

"but they rebelled against thy word.''

l אבותינו במצרים "patres nostri in Aegypto", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, c. m בים סוף "in mari Suph", Pagninus, Vatablus, Schmidt "in mare carecti", Montanus; "mare algosum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius. n Onomastic. Sacr. p. 128, 940.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our fathers understood not - They did not fully comprehend the design of the divine dealings. They did not perceive the greatness of the favor shown to them, or the obligation to obey and serve God under which they were placed by these remarkable manifestations.

Thy wonders in Egypt - The miracles performed there in behalf of the Hebrew people.

They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies - The great number of the divine interpositions in their behalf. They did not allow them to influence their conduct as they should have done. The aggravation of their offence in the case here referred to was particularly in the “multitude” of the mercies. It would have been sinful to have forgotten even one act of the divine favor; it was a great aggravation of their guilt that “so many” acts were forgotten, or that they failed to make an impression on them. So now. It is a great sin to be unmindful of a “single” favor conferred by God; it is a great aggravation of guilt that men live continually amidst so many proofs of the divine goodness; that they are fed, and clothed, and protected; that they breathe the pure air, and look upon the light of the sun; that they enjoy the comforts of domestic life, the blessings of liberty, and the offers of salvation; that they lie down and rise up; that their toils are crowned with success, and that the blessings of every land are made to come around them - and yet they forget or disregard all these proofs of the divine mercy.

But provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea - Exodus 14:10-12. They “rebelled” against him. Even amidst the wonders there occurring, and after all the blessings which they had received at his hands, when they were in danger they doubted his power, and called in question his faithfulness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 106:7. Our fathers understood not — They did not regard the operation of God's hands; and therefore they understood neither his designs nor their own interest.

At the sea, even at the Red Sea. — Some of the rabbins suppose that the repetition of the words point out two faults of the Israelites at the Red Sea. 1. They murmured against Moses for bringing them out of Egypt, when they saw the sea before them, and Pharaoh behind them. 2. When the waters were divided, they were afraid to enter in, lest they should stick in the mud which appeared at the bottom. The word seems to be added by way of explanation, and perhaps may refer to the above: they provoked על ים al yam, "AT the sea;" בים סוף beyam suph, "IN the sea Suph," or Red Sea. They provoked him at it and in it.


 
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