Psalm 106:40

Translations

Modern

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Traditional

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Literal

And the anger of YHWH was kindled against His people, and He came to abhor His inheritance.

Latin

Et iratus est furore Dominus in populum suum, et abominatus est hæreditatem suam.

Original

Hebrew

English

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Notes

Psalms 106:40

God hated Israel's sin, just as he hates all sin.

Psalms 106:40–46

The psalmist again talks about the Babylonian exile (Psalm 106:26–27). The Lord judged Israel harshly, but he also restrained his anger, remembering the covenant he had made with Abraham.

Psalms 106:1–48

The Israelite community in exile confessed the Lord’s goodness and justice and their own past sins. From their humble state in exile, they asked for redemption and restoration. They hoped to be gathered back from all the places the Lord had scattered them in his anger.
The psalm ends with a memory of the Lord’s past mercy and hope for renewed mercy (Psalm 106:44–48). Israel failed, but the Lord remains constant.
Verses 1, 47–48 (along with Psalms 96; 105:1–15) are included in David’s song of praise recorded in 1 Chronicles 16:1–43.

Theme notes and profiles

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Related verses

Judges 2:14
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.
Deuteronomy 9:29
But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”
Deuteronomy 32:19
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Judges 2:20
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
Judges 3:8
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
Zechariah 11:8
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
Nehemiah 9:27–38
So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
Leviticus 20:23
You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
Psalm 74:1
A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
Psalm 78:59–62
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Glossary

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Topics

Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Provoke the Anger of God Idolatry: Warnings Against, and Punishments of Sin: Repugnant to God

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