Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?
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!
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?
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!
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
39 And He remembereth that they are flesh, A wind going on -- and it returneth not. 40 How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place? 41 Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.
Cross References
Ephesians 4:30
and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
Psalm 95:8-10
Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Isaiah 63:10
And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.
Numbers 14:11
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?
Deuteronomy 9:21-22
and your sin, which ye have made -- the calf -- I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it is small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount.
Psalm 78:17
And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.
Psalm 106:14-33
And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.
Psalm 107:11
Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.
Isaiah 7:13
And he saith, 'Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?
Hebrews 3:15-17
in its being said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'