Psalms 77:41
And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et conversi sunt, et tentaverunt Deum, et sanctum Israël exacerbaverunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπέστρεψαν καὶ ἐπείρασαν τὸν θεόν, καὶ τὸν ἅγιον τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ παρώξυναν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:41
- וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּ וַיְנַסּ֣וּ אֵ֑ל וּקְד֖וֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל הִתְווּ
Haydock's commentary
Grieved. Hebrew, "set bounds to," or "marked," holding up to scorn, Hebrews vi. 6. Genebrard thinks we might translate, "crucified," hithvu, as this is the root of Thau, which formerly resembled a cross. (Calmet)
This would surely be one of the most striking enigmas. St. Jerome agrees with us. (Berthier)
"They pushed on," concitaverunt, as God's wrath must be greatly excited by setting limits to his power and goodness. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
23. I say then of these crooked and embittering persons, “How often they exasperated Him in the desert, and provoked Him to wrath in the waterless place!” ( ver. 40 ). “And they turned themselves and tempted God, and exasperated the Holy One of Israel” ( ver. 41 ). He is repeating that same unbelief of theirs, of which He had made mention above. But the reason of the repetition is, in order that there may be mentioned also the plagues which He inflicted on the Egyptians for their sakes: all which things they certainly ought to have remembered, and not to be ungrateful. Lastly, there followeth what? “They remembered not His hands, in the day when He redeemed them from the hand of the troubler” ( ver. 42 ). And he beginneth to speak of what things He did to the Egyptians: “He set in Egypt His signs, and His prodigies in the plain of Thanis” ( ver. …