'Essayed' in the Bible

Or hath God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a powerful hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?