Psalm 78:41 {77:41}
Good News Translation
Again and again they put God to the test and brought pain to the Holy God of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
They tested God again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
They kept testing him and caused terrible pain for the Holy One of Israel.

New American Bible
Again and again they tested God, provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

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Numbers 14:4,22 And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt. . . .

Deuteronomy 6:16 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

Acts 7:39 Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,

Hebrews 3:8-11 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert, . . .

2 Peter 2:21,22 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them. . . .

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Psalm 78:19,20 And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? . . .

Mark 5:35,36 While he was yet speaking, some come from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying: Thy daughter is dead: why dost thou trouble the master any further? . . .

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
40How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water? 41And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.42They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:…
Cross References
Exodus 17:2
And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?

Numbers 14:22
But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

2 Kings 19:22
Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed? against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the holy one of Israel.

Psalm 71:22
For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel.

Psalm 78:18
And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

Psalm 89:18
For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.

Psalm 78:40
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