Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert?
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Holman Bible
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.
International Standard Version
How they rebelled against him in the desert, grieving him in the wilderness!
A Conservative Version
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
American Standard Version
How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
Amplified
How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!
Bible in Basic English
How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!
Darby Translation
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Julia Smith Translation
How often they will embitter him in the desert! they will grieve him in the waste.
King James 2000
How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Lexham Expanded Bible
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in [the] wasteland!
Modern King James verseion
How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!
NET Bible
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the desert!
New Heart English Bible
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert.
The Emphasized Bible
How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:
Webster
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
World English Bible
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
Youngs Literal Translation
How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
39 For he considered that they were but flesh; even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 40 O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert? 41 They turned back, and tempted God, and moved the holy one in Israel.
Cross References
Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Psalm 95:8-10
Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
Isaiah 63:10
But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.
Numbers 14:11
And the LORD said unto Moses, "How long shall this people rail upon me, and how long will it be, yer they believe me, for all my signs which I have showed among them?
Deuteronomy 9:21-22
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made and burnt him with fire and stamped him and ground him a-good, even unto small dust. And I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
Psalm 78:17
Yet for all this they sinned more against him, and provoked the most highest in the wilderness.
Psalm 106:14-33
A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert.
Psalm 107:11
because they were not obedient to the commandments of God, but lightly regarded the counsel of the most highest - he also brought down their hearts through heaviness.
Isaiah 7:13
Wherefore the LORD said, "Hearken, ye of the house of David: Is it so small a thing for you, to be grievous to men, but that ye should also be painful unto God?
Hebrews 3:15-17
so long as it is said, "Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when ye provoked."