Tehillim 78:42

42 They remembered not His Yad (Hand, Power), nor the yom (day) when He redeemed them from the enemy.

Tehillim 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.

Tehillim 78:42 In-Context

40 How oft did they provoke Him in the midbar, and grieve Him in the desert!

41 Again and again they turned back and tested G-d, and imposed limits on Kadosh Yisroel.

42 They remembered not His Yad (Hand, Power), nor the yom (day) when He redeemed them from the enemy.

43 How He had wrought His otot in Mitzrayim, and His mofetim in the area of Tzoan.

44 And had turned their rivers into dahm; and their streams, that they could not drink.