Psalm 78:40

Lessons From Israel's Past

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For He [graciously] remembered that they were mere [human] flesh,
A wind that goes and does not return. ⁴⁰ 
How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!
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Again and again they tempted God,
And distressed the Holy One of Israel.

In the Wilderness

Provoke Him

In The Desert

Rebel Against Him

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [but seek to please Him], by whom you were sealed and marked [branded as God’s own] for the day of redemption [the final deliverance from the consequences of sin].

Psalm 95:8-10

Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],
And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness,

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled
And grieved His Holy Spirit;
Therefore He changed into their enemy,
And He fought against them.

Numbers 14:11

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me disrespectfully and reject Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the [miraculous] signs which I have performed among them?

Deuteronomy 9:21-22

I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it in the fire and thoroughly crushed it, grinding the metal thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

Psalm 78:17

Yet they still continued to sin against Him
By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

Psalm 106:14-33

But lusted intensely in the wilderness
And tempted God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.

Psalm 107:11

Because they had rebelled against the precepts of God
And spurned the counsel of the Most High.

Isaiah 7:13

Then Isaiah said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too small a thing for you to try the patience of men, but will you try the patience of my God as well?

Hebrews 3:15-17

while it is said,

“Today [while there is still opportunity] if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your heart, as when they provoked Me [in the rebellion in the desert at Meribah].”