78:40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

95:10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

106:7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

106:8Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

106:9He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

106:10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

106:11And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

106:12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:

106:14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

106:15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

106:16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

106:17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

106:18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

106:19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

106:20Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

106:21They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

106:24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

106:25But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

106:26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

106:27To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

106:28They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

106:29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

106:30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

106:31And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

106:32They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

106:33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

106:34They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

106:35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

106:36And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

106:37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

106:38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

106:39Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.