King James Version
"How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!"
— Psalms 78:40, King James Version
“How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert! ”
“How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!”
“How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!”
“How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!”
“How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!”
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: