Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols. New Living Translation They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols. English Standard Version For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols. Berean Standard Bible They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. King James Bible For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. New King James Version For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images. New American Standard Bible For they provoked Him with their high places And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images. NASB 1995 For they provoked Him with their high places And aroused His jealousy with their graven images. NASB 1977 For they provoked Him with their high places, And aroused His jealousy with their graven images. Legacy Standard Bible For they provoked Him with their high places And aroused His jealousy with their graven images. Amplified Bible For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship] And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His]. Christian Standard Bible They enraged him with their high places and provoked his jealousy with their carved images. Holman Christian Standard Bible They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images. American Standard Version For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images. Contemporary English Version God demanded all their love, but they made him angry by worshiping idols. English Revised Version For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. GOD'S WORD® Translation They made him angry because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols. Good News Translation They angered him with their heathen places of worship, and with their idols they made him furious. International Standard Version they angered him with their high places and with their carved images they made him jealous. Majority Standard Bible They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. NET Bible They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols. New Heart English Bible For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. Webster's Bible Translation For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. World English Bible For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd make Him angry with their high places, "" And make Him zealous with their carved images, Young's Literal Translation And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous, Smith's Literal Translation And they will make him angry with their heights, and they will provoke him to jealousy with their carved images. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThey provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger. New Revised Standard Version For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor they provoked him to anger by sacrificing on high places, and made him indignant with their graven images. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And they angered him by their sacrifices and they made him jealous by their idols. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For they provoked Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. Brenton Septuagint Translation And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context I Will Open My Mouth in Parables…57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow. 58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. 59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.… Cross References Deuteronomy 32:16-21 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations. / They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear. / You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth. ... Judges 2:11-13 And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. / Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. 1 Kings 14:22-24 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done. / They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. / There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. 2 Kings 17:10-12 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. / They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger. / They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.” Jeremiah 7:18-19 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger. / But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame? Ezekiel 8:10-12 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel. / Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. / “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’” Hosea 4:12-13 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. Isaiah 57:5-6 who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? / Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these? Jeremiah 19:4-5 because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. / They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind. 2 Chronicles 28:25 In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers. 1 Corinthians 10:20-22 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. / You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. / Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He? Romans 1:21-23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Acts 17:29-30 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination. / Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Revelation 9:20 Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. Treasury of Scripture For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. their high Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. Numbers 33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: Deuteronomy 12:2,4 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: … moved Psalm 79:5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? Exodus 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Deuteronomy 32:16,17,21 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger… with Psalm 97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods. Exodus 20:4,5 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: … Deuteronomy 4:16-25 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, … Jump to Previous Anger Angered Angry Aroused Engraved Graven High Idols Images Jealousy Moved Moving Places Provoked Wrath ZealousJump to Next Anger Angered Angry Aroused Engraved Graven High Idols Images Jealousy Moved Moving Places Provoked Wrath ZealousPsalm 78 1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient 67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David. They enraged Him The phrase "They enraged Him" refers to the Israelites' actions that stirred God's anger. The Hebrew root word here is "כָּעַס" (ka'as), which means to provoke or anger. This reflects a deep emotional response from God, who is portrayed as a loving yet just deity. The Israelites' behavior was not merely a breach of law but a personal affront to God, who had chosen them as His people. This highlights the relational aspect of the covenant between God and Israel, where disobedience is seen as a betrayal of trust and love. with their high places they provoked His jealousy with their idols Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew They enraged Himוַיַּכְעִיס֥וּהוּ (way·yaḵ·‘î·sū·hū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular Strong's 3707: To trouble, to grieve, rage, be indignant with their high places בְּבָמוֹתָ֑ם (bə·ḇā·mō·w·ṯām) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1116: An elevation and provoked His jealousy יַקְנִיאֽוּהוּ׃ (yaq·nî·’ū·hū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular Strong's 7065: To be, zealous, jealous, envious with their idols. וּ֝בִפְסִילֵיהֶ֗ם (ū·ḇip̄·sî·lê·hem) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 6456: An idol, image Links Psalm 78:58 NIVPsalm 78:58 NLT Psalm 78:58 ESV Psalm 78:58 NASB Psalm 78:58 KJV Psalm 78:58 BibleApps.com Psalm 78:58 Biblia Paralela Psalm 78:58 Chinese Bible Psalm 78:58 French Bible Psalm 78:58 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger (Psalm Ps Psa.) |