Psalm 78:58

Translations

Modern

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Traditional

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Literal

And they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and with their carved images they made Him jealous.

Latin

In iram concitaverunt eum in collibus suis, et in sculptilibus suis ad æmulationem eum provocaverunt.

Original

Hebrew

English

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Notes

Psalms 78:56–64

Israel’s rebellion defiled the promised land. During the time of the judges, the people built shrines to false gods and worshiped idols (Psalm 78:58; see also Judges 2:11; 3:7, 17–18).

Psalms 78:1–72

This wisdom psalm urges people to learn wisdom and share it faithfully.

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Anger The Limitations of Law Wisdom Psalms

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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
1 Kings 12:31
Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 32:16–17
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
1 Kings 11:7
At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
Exodus 20:4–5
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
Judges 2:11–12
And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
Judges 2:17
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
Deuteronomy 4:16–25
…that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
Psalm 97:7
All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!

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