Psalms 78:56

“Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:”

"Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:" - Psalms 78:56
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What does Psalms 78:56 mean?

Psalm 78:56 from the King James Version of the Bible reads, "Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies." This verse is a part of a larger section of Psalm 78 that recounts the history of the Israelites' relationship with God. The verse serves…

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The Peril of Provocation: Lessons from Psalm 78:56

In Psalm 78:56, we are faced with a stark reminder of the consequences of failure to adhere to God's commandments: "Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies." This verse serves as both a warning and a reflection, prompting us to examine our…

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A Prayer of Repentance and Restoration: Heeding the Call of Psalm 78:56

O Almighty and Sovereign Lord, the Most High God, As I bow before Your throne this day, I come with a heart burdened by the weight of my sins and the collective sins of your people, recalling the words written in Psalm 78:56: "Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and…

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Psalms 78:56 - "Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:"
Psalms 56:5 - "Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil."
Psalms 56:3
Psalms 78:8 - "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God."
"And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer." - Psalms 78:35
"They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;" - Psalms 78:10
"Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble." - Psalms 78:33
Psalms 78:18 - "And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust."
Psalms 78:35 - "And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer."
Psalms 78:47 - "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost."
Psalms 78:10 - "They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;"
Psalms 78:64 - "Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation."
Psalms 78:22 - "Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:"
"What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee." - Psalms 56:3
"He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts." - Psalms 78:48
"They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths," - Psalms 78:30
Psalms 78:61 - "And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand."
Psalms 78:67 - "Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:"
"And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness." - Psalms 78:17
"When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:" - Psalms 78:59
Psalms 78:44 - "And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink."
Psalms 78:32 - "For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works."
Psalms 119:56 - "This I had, because I kept thy precepts."
Psalms 78:41 - "Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel."
Psalms 78:17 - "And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness."
Psalms 78:36 - "Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues."
Psalms 78:59 - "When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:"
Psalms 78:28 - "And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations."
Psalms 78:63 - "The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage."