Psalms 77:56
Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et tentaverunt, et exacerbaverunt Deum excelsum, et testimonia ejus non custodierunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπείρασαν καὶ παρεπίκραναν τὸν θεὸν τὸν ὕψιστον, καὶ τὰ μαρτύρια αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐφυλάξαντο·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:56
- וַיְנַסּ֣וּ וַ֭יַּמְרוּ אֶת אֱלֹהִ֣ים עֶלְי֑וֹן וְ֝עֵדוֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א שָׁמָֽרוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
31. “And He made to dwell in their tabernacles the tribes of Israel.” In the tabernacles, he saith, of the Gentiles He made the tribes of Israel to dwell, which I think can better be explained spiritually, inasmuch as unto celestial glory, whence sinning angels have been cast forth and cast down, by Christ’s grace we are being uplifted. For that generation crooked and embittering, inasmuch as for these corporal blessings they put not off the coat of oldness, “Did tempt” yet, “and provoked the high God, and His testimonies they kept not ( ver. 56 ): and they turned them away, and they kept not the covenant, like their fathers” ( ver. 57 ). …