A moment in scripture
Psalms 78:56
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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 78:54
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
- Psalms 78:55
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Psalms 78:57
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
- Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.