Psalms 78:42

42 They didn't remember his power. They forgot the day he set them free from those who had beaten them down.

Psalms 78:42 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:42

They remembered not his hand
Which brought them out of Egypt, and dashed their enemies in pieces, and which had been so often opened to supply their wants in the wilderness; the Targum renders it, the miracles of his hand:

nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy;
Pharaoh king of Egypt; that very memorable day in which they were delivered out of his hands, that selfsame day which had been fixed, by promise and prophecy many hundreds of years before, in which the hosts of the Lord went out of Egypt, ( Exodus 12:41 ) ( Genesis 15:13 Genesis 15:14 ) , times when as well as places where deliverances and salvation have been wrought should not be forgotten; and forgetfulness of the goodness of God in times past is often the cause and occasion of sinning against him, which, by a remembrance of his kind appearances, might be prevented.

Psalms 78:42 In-Context

40 How often they refused to obey him in the desert! How often they caused him sorrow in that dry and empty land!

41 Again and again they put God to the test. They made the Holy One of Israel sad and angry.

42 They didn't remember his power. They forgot the day he set them free from those who had beaten them down.

43 They forgot how he had shown them his miraculous signs in Egypt. They forgot his miracles in the area of Zoan.

44 He turned the rivers of Egypt into blood. The people of Egypt couldn't drink water from their streams.