Psalms 78:59

New Living Translation

When God heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
God heard and was filled with wrathAnd greatly rejected Israel;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When God heard, He was filled with wrath And greatly abhorred Israel;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When the Lorde hearde this, he was wroth: & toke sore displeasure at Israel.

Darby Translation
God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

New King James Version
When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

Literal Translation
When God heard, and He passed over, and He utterly rejected Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
God heard what they were doing and became very angry. So he rejected Israel completely!

World English Bible
When God heard this, he was angry, And greatly abhorred Israel;

King James Version (1611)
When God heard this, hee was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

King James Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And so they greued him with their hie places, & prouoked him with their ymages.

Amplified Bible
When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath; And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

American Standard Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Bible in Basic English
When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;

Update Bible Version
When God heard [this], he was angry, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Webster's Bible Translation
When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

New English Translation
God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.

Contemporary English Version
So God became furious and completely rejected the people of Israel.

Complete Jewish Bible
God heard, and he was angry; he came to detest Isra'el completely.

Geneva Bible (1587)
God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

George Lamsa Translation
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

Hebrew Names Version
When God heard this, he was angry, And greatly abhorred Yisra'el;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel;

New Life Bible
God was very angry when He heard them, and He hated Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel.

English Revised Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Berean Standard Bible
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

New Revised Standard
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
God heard and was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-59) God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

Lexham English Bible
God heard and he was very angry and rejected Israel utterly.

English Standard Version
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

New American Standard Bible
When God heard them, He was filled with wrath And He utterly rejected Israel;

New Century Version
When God heard them, he became very angry and rejected the people of Israel completely.

Good News Translation
God was angry when he saw it, so he rejected his people completely.

Christian Standard Bible®
God heard and became furious; He completely rejected Israel.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God herde, and forsook; and brouyte to nouyt Israel greetli.

Young's Literal Translation
God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.

Revised Standard Version
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Psalms 11:4, Psalms 14:2-5, Genesis 18:20, Genesis 18:21

greatly: Psalms 106:40, Leviticus 20:23, Leviticus 26:44, Lamentations 2:7, Zechariah 11:8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:11 - abhor Leviticus 26:30 - my soul Numbers 11:10 - the anger Deuteronomy 32:19 - And when 1 Samuel 2:32 - an enemy Psalms 89:38 - and Jeremiah 2:7 - ye defiled Jeremiah 12:7 - have forsaken Jeremiah 14:19 - utterly Jeremiah 23:33 - I Ezekiel 23:18 - then Amos 6:8 - I abhor Zechariah 8:2 - I was jealous

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When God heard this,.... Their building high places, and sacrificing on them, their making and worshipping graven images, and the language which such actions spoke; who also heard what they said to their idols, when they paid their devotion to them, acknowledging them to be their gods; he took notice of and observed all this, for nothing could pass his all seeing eye and hearing ear; and who acted as a righteous Judge, first heard, and then proceeded to give and execute the sentence; by which he let them know that he did hear and observe what they said and did:

he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel; not his remnant among them, according to the election of grace, which he in all ages had; for this would be contrary to his everlasting love, which always continues; to the immutability of his nature, who changes not; to his Word, who says, fury is not in me; and to his oath, who hath sworn that he will not be wroth with his people: he may indeed, and does, abhor their sins, but not their persons; he may seem to them and others, in the dispensations of his providence, to be wroth with them and abhor them; but does not in reality. This is to be understood of the bulk of the people in general, and is to be explained and illustrated by those several instances of his displeasure with them in the times of the judges; when his anger waxed hot against them for their idolatries and other sins, and he delivered them up into the hands of their enemies, Judges 3:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When God heard this - literally, “God heard;” that is, he understood this; he was acquainted with it. He heard their prayers addressed to false gods; he heard their praises sung in honor of idols.

He was wroth - This is language taken from the common manner of speaking among people, for language derived from human conceptions and usages must be employed when we speak of God, though it may be difficult to say what is its exact meaning. The general sense is that his conduct toward them was as if he was angry; or was that which is used by a man who is displeased.

And greatly abhorred Israel - The idea in the word rendered abhorred is that of rejecting them with abhorrence; that is, the reference is not merely to the internal feeling or emotion, but to the act which is the proper accompaniment of such an internal feeling. He cast them off; he treated them as not his own. The addition of the word “greatly” shows how intense this feeling was; how decided was his aversion to their conduct.