Psalm 78:59
New International Version
When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.

New Living Translation
When God heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel.

English Standard Version
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

King James Bible
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

New King James Version
When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

New American Standard Bible
When God heard them, He was filled with wrath And He utterly rejected Israel;

NASB 1995
When God heard, He was filled with wrath And greatly abhorred Israel;

NASB 1977
When God heard, He was filled with wrath, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Legacy Standard Bible
God heard and was filled with wrath And greatly rejected Israel;

Amplified Bible
When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath; And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

Christian Standard Bible
God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God heard and became furious; He completely rejected Israel.

American Standard Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And God heard and was provoked and was very angry against Israel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel.

Contemporary English Version
So God became furious and completely rejected the people of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

English Revised Version
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When God heard, he became furious. He completely rejected Israel.

Good News Translation
God was angry when he saw it, so he rejected his people completely.

International Standard Version
God heard and became furious, and he completely rejected Israel.

JPS Tanakh 1917
God heard, and was wroth, And He greatly abhorred Israel;

Literal Standard Version
God has heard, and shows Himself angry. And kicks exceedingly against Israel.

Majority Standard Bible
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

New American Bible
God heard and grew angry; he rejected Israel completely.

NET Bible
God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

New Heart English Bible
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

Webster's Bible Translation
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

World English Bible
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

Young's Literal Translation
God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. 59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely. 60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.…

Cross References
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Deuteronomy 1:34
When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,

Deuteronomy 9:19
For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

Deuteronomy 32:19
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Psalm 55:19
God will hear and humiliate them--the One enthroned for the ages--Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

Psalm 89:39
You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

Psalm 106:40
So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.


Treasury of Scripture

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

God

Psalm 11:4
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Psalm 14:2-5
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God…

Genesis 18:20,21
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; …

greatly

Psalm 106:40
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Leviticus 20:23
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Leviticus 26:44
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














Verse 59. - When God heard this, he was wroth (comp. above, ver. 21). And greatly abhorred Israel. Not Israel, as distinct from Judah, but Israel in the broadest sense, the entire nation, as in ver. 55.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
On hearing it,
שָׁמַ֣ע (šā·ma‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

God
אֱ֭לֹהִים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

was furious
וַֽיִּתְעַבָּ֑ר (way·yiṯ·‘ab·bār)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

and rejected
וַיִּמְאַ֥ס (way·yim·’as)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3988: To spurn, to disappear

Israel
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

completely.
מְ֝אֹ֗ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily


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