King James Version
Psalms 78:21 in the King James Version says “Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 78 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;”
Psalms 78:21 · KJV
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? furnish: Heb. order
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
“heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“Therefore the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“this and was wroth”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“and anger”
H639properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
“also came up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“against Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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