Parallel Verses
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;
The Emphasized Bible
But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe;
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
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:56
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
55
He cast out the Gentiles also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their habitations.
56
And did not keep His testimonies,
Cross References
Judges 2:11-12
And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baalim.
Deuteronomy 31:16-20
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people shall rise up and fornicate after the gods of the strangers of the land where they go when they shall be among them and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 32:15-21
But Jeshurun (the upright one) waxed fat and kicked; (thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou hast covered thyself) and forsook the God who made him and lightly esteemed the strong One of his saving health.
2 Kings 17:7-23
For so it was that the sons of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods
Nehemiah 9:25-26
And they took strong cities and fertile land and inherited houses full of all goods, hewn cisterns, vineyards and oliveyards and many trees of good fruit; so they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Psalm 78:40-41
How often did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert!
Ezekiel 16:15-26
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and didst play the harlot because of thy renown and didst pour out thy fornications on every one that passed by; thou wert his.