Psalms 78:58

58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

Psalms 78:58 in Other Translations

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

58 They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

58 Their pagan orgies provoked God's anger, their obscene idolatries broke his heart.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

58 They made him angry because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.

58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

58 They made God angry by going to their high places. They made him jealous by worshiping the statues of their gods.

Psalms 78:58 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places
Which they built to Baal, and other Heathen dieties:

and moved him to jealousy with their graven images;
which they worshipped, see ( Judges 10:6 ) , which idolatry was spiritual adultery, and so made the Lord jealous of them, who stood in the relation of a husband to them, as a man becomes jealous by the unchaste and lascivious conduct of his wife; and such a course of life the Israelites lived, throughout the reigns of the judges, at certain seasons, until the times of Eli and Samuel, when the ark was carried captive, of which mention is made in the following verses.

Psalms 78:58 In-Context

56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.

57 Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

59 When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.

60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.

Cross References

• 1. S Judges 2:12
• 2. S Leviticus 26:30
• 3. Exodus 20:4; S Deuteronomy 5:8; Deuteronomy 32:21