Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe;
New American Standard Bible
And did not keep His testimonies,
King James Version
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Holman Bible
for they did not keep His decrees.
International Standard Version
But they tested the Most High God by rebelling against him, and they did not obey his statutes.
A Conservative Version
Yet they challenged and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies,
American Standard Version
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
Amplified
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies (laws).
Bible in Basic English
But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;
Darby Translation
But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
Julia Smith Translation
And they will tempt and embitter God the Most High, and they watched not his testimonies.
King James 2000
Yet they tested and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Lexham Expanded Bible
But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.
Modern King James verseion
Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and kept not His testimonies;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yet, for all this they tempted and displeased the most high God, and kept not his covenant:
NET Bible
Yet they challenged and defied the sovereign God, and did not obey his commands.
New Heart English Bible
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies;
Webster
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
World English Bible
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
Youngs Literal Translation
And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:56
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
55 So he drave out, before them, whole nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel. 56 But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe; 57 But drew back and dealt treacherously, like their fathers, They turned aside, like deceitful bowmen;
Cross References
Judges 2:11-12
So the sons of Israel did the thing that was wicked in the sight of Yahweh, - and served the Baals;
Deuteronomy 31:16-20
Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Lo! thou art about to sleep with thy fathers, - and this people will rise up, and go away unchastely after the gods of the foreigners of the land into the midst of whom they are entering, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I solemnised with them.
Deuteronomy 32:15-21
Then Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou wast fat, Thou wast thick, Thou wast gorged, So he forsook the GOD who made him, And treated as foolish his Rock of salvation.
2 Kings 17:7-23
And thus it came to pass that Israel sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, - yea they did reverence to other gods;
Nehemiah 9:25-26
and they captured fortified cities and a fat soil, and took possession of houses full of every good thing, wells digged, vineyards and oliveyards and fruit-trees, in abundance, - so they did eat and were filled and became fat, and luxuriated in thy great goodness.
Psalm 78:40-41
How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:
Ezekiel 16:15-26
Then didst thou trust in thy beauty, And become unchaste, because of thy fame,- And didst pour out thine unchastity upon every passer-by, his it was!