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Psalms 78:58

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

KJV

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

ASV

וַ/יַּכְעִיס֥וּ/הוּ בְּ/בָמוֹתָ֑/ם וּ֝/בִ/פְסִילֵי/הֶ֗ם יַקְנִיאֽוּ/הוּ

Hebrew

And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

4 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בָּמ֖וֹת
bmvt
noun · 104×
הֶ֖ם
hm
noun · 24×
יְקַנְא֣וּ
yqn'v
verb · 33×
נִי
ny
verb · 51×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:22 — Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
  • 1Cor 10:22 — Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
  • 1Kgs 11:7 — Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
  • 1Kgs 12:31 — And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
  • 1Kgs 14:22 — And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
  • Deut 4:24 — For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
  • Deut 12:2 — 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:
  • Deut 32:16 — They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
  • Deut 32:21 — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them t
  • Deut 32:21 — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them t
  • Exod 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them th
  • Ezek 16:24 — That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
  • Isa 65:3 — A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
  • Lev 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.
  • Num 25:11 — Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israe
  • Ps 106:36 — And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
  • Zech 8:2 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
  • Zeph 1:18 — Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy ridd