Psalms 106:29

29 they aroused the LORD’s anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Psalms 106:29 in Other Translations

29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

29 they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

29 They angered the LORD with all these things, so a plague broke out among them.

29 That made God so angry that a plague spread through their ranks;

29 They provoked the Lord with their deeds, and a plague broke out against them.

Psalms 106:29 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 106:29

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions
Sin is an invention of man's: when our first parents sinned, they found out many inventions; and their posterity ever since have been inventors of evil things; and man's invention is very quick at that work. All false doctrine and false worship are of men's finding out; all idolatrous practices are their inventions, and which are here intended; see ( Psalms 106:39 ) . And these are very provoking to God, who is jealous of his glory, and which is taken from him hereby; and even when he forgives such sins of men, he takes vengeance on their inventions, as in this case, ( Psalms 99:8 ) . For it follows:

and the plague brake in upon them:
like an inundation of water, and carried off four and twenty thousand persons, ( Numbers 25:9 ) .

Psalms 106:29 In-Context

27 make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

29 they aroused the LORD’s anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

30 But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked.

31 This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 25:3
• 2. S Psalms 64:2; Psalms 141:4
• 3. S Numbers 16:46; Numbers 25:8