Psalms 78:56

New Living Translation

But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High. They did not obey his laws.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High GodAnd did not keep His testimonies,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, they tempted and displeased the most hyghest Lorde: & kept not his testimonies.

Darby Translation
But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

New King James Version
Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, And did not keep His testimonies,

Literal Translation
Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God; and they did not keep His testimonies;

Easy-to-Read Version
But they tested God Most High and made him very sad. They didn't obey his commands.

World English Bible
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And didn't keep his testimonies;

King James Version (1611)
Yet they tempted and prouoked the most high God: and kept not his testimonies:

King James Version
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He dyd cast out the Heithen before them, caused their londe to be deuyded amonge them for an heretage, and made ye tribes of Israel to dwell in their tetes.

THE MESSAGE
But they kept on giving him a hard time, rebelled against God, the High God, refused to do anything he told them. They were worse, if that's possible, than their parents: traitors—crooked as a corkscrew. Their pagan orgies provoked God's anger, their obscene idolatries broke his heart. When God heard their carryings-on, he was furious; he posted a huge No over Israel. He walked off and left Shiloh empty, abandoned the shrine where he had met with Israel. He let his pride and joy go to the dogs, turned his back on the pride of his life. He turned them loose on fields of battle; angry, he let them fend for themselves. Their young men went to war and never came back; their young women waited in vain. Their priests were massacred, and their widows never shed a tear.

Amplified Bible
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies (laws).

American Standard Version
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

Bible in Basic English
But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

Update Bible Version
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And did not keep his testimonies;

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

New English Translation
Yet they challenged and defied the sovereign God, and did not obey his commands.

Contemporary English Version
But the people tested God Most High, and they refused to obey his laws.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yet they tested El ‘Elyon and rebelled against him, refusing to obey his instructions.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

George Lamsa Translation
Yet they tempted and provoked the most High God, and kept not his testimonies;

Hebrew Names Version
Yet they tempted and rebelled against Ha`Elyon God, And didn't keep his testimonies;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;

New Life Bible
But they tempted and went against the Most High God. They did not keep His Law.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies.

English Revised Version
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies;

Berean Standard Bible
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

New Revised Standard
Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-56) Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

Lexham English Bible
But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.

English Standard Version
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,

New American Standard Bible
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,

New Century Version
But they tested God and turned against God Most High; they did not keep his rules.

Good News Translation
But they rebelled against Almighty God and put him to the test. They did not obey his commandments,

Christian Standard Bible®
But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep His decrees.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei temptiden, and wraththiden heiy God; and thei kepten not hise witnessyngis.

Young's Literal Translation
And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

Revised Standard Version
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,

Contextual Overview

⁴⁰ Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland. ⁴¹ Again and again they tested God's patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ⁴² They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies. ⁴³ They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan. ⁴⁴ For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams. ⁴⁵ He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them. ⁴⁶ He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts. ⁴⁷ He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet. ⁴⁸ He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning. ⁴⁹ He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.

Bible Verse Review
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Psalms 78:40, Psalms 78:41, Deuteronomy 31:16-20, Deuteronomy 32:15-21, Judges 2:11, Judges 2:12, 2 Kings 17:7-23, Nehemiah 9:25, Nehemiah 9:26, Ezekiel 16:15-26

Reciprocal: Exodus 17:2 - wherefore Exodus 23:21 - provoke him not 1 Samuel 8:8 - General 1 Kings 14:9 - to provoke 2 Kings 17:11 - to provoke Psalms 95:9 - When Isaiah 63:10 - vexed Jeremiah 44:23 - nor in his testimonies Malachi 3:15 - they that tempt Matthew 4:7 - Thou Acts 5:9 - to tempt 1 Corinthians 10:9 - tempt Hebrews 3:8 - as Hebrews 7:1 - the most

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,.... After the death of Joshua, and in the times of the judges, by worshipping and serving the gods of the nations, and forsaking the Lord their God, who had done such great things for them, Judges 2:11,

and kept not his testimonies; the laws of God, which testified and declared his mind and will; nor observed his word and ordinances, which testified of his grace, and of the way of salvation by Jesus Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet they tempted and provoked ... - They tried the patience of God, and provoked him to anger after they were peaceably settled in the promised land. See Judges 2:10-13. The object is to show that it was the character of the people that they were prone to depart from God. Compare Psalms 78:10-11, note; Psalms 78:17, note; Psalms 78:40, note.