Psalms 78:35

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They remembered that God was their rock,the Most High God, their Redeemer.

Hebrew Names Version
They remembered that God was their rock, The El `Elyon their redeemer.

King James Version
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

English Standard Version
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.

New Century Version
They would remember that God was their Rock, that God Most High had saved them.

New English Translation
They remembered that God was their protector, and that the sovereign God was their deliverer.

Amplified Bible
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

New American Standard Bible
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

World English Bible
They remembered that God was their rock, The Most High God their redeemer.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.

Legacy Standard Bible
And they remembered that God was their rock,And the Most High God their Redeemer.

Berean Standard Bible
And they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

Contemporary English Version
They remembered God Most High, the mighty rock that kept them safe.

Complete Jewish Bible
remembering that God was their Rock, El ‘Elyon their Redeemer.

Darby Translation
And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, their redeemer.

Easy-to-Read Version
They would remember that God was their Rock. They would remember that God Most High had saved them.

George Lamsa Translation
And they remembered that God was their helper, and the high God their Saviour.

Good News Translation
They remembered that God was their protector, that the Almighty came to their aid.

Lexham English Bible
And they remembered that God was their rock, and God Most High their redeemer.

Literal Translation
So they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their Redeemer.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They thought then that God was their socoure, and that the hye God was their redemer.

American Standard Version
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

Bible in Basic English
In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.

King James Version (1611)
And they remembred that God was their rocke: and the high God, their redeemer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse they dyd but flatter him with their mouth: and they made hym a lye with their tongue.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.

English Revised Version
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei bithouyten, that God is the helper of hem; and `the hiy God is the ayenbier of hem.

Update Bible Version
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

New King James Version
Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

New Living Translation
Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer.

New Life Bible
They remembered that God was their rock, and that the Most High God was the One Who set them free.

New Revised Standard
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And remembered that, Elohim, was their rock, Yea, EL Most High, their Redeemer:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-35) And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

Revised Standard Version
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.

Young's Literal Translation
And they remember that God [is] their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

Contextual Overview

⁹The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth, ran off when the battle began. They were cowards to God's Covenant, refused to walk by his Word. They forgot what he had done— marvels he'd done right before their eyes. He performed miracles in plain sight of their parents in Egypt, out on the fields of Zoan. He split the Sea and they walked right through it; he piled the waters to the right and the left. He led them by day with a cloud, led them all the night long with a fiery torch. He split rocks in the wilderness, gave them all they could drink from underground springs; He made creeks flow out from sheer rock, and water pour out like a river. ¹⁷All they did was sin even more, rebel in the desert against the High God. They tried to get their own way with God, clamored for favors, for special attention. They whined like spoiled children, "Why can't God give us a decent meal in this desert? Sure, he struck the rock and the water flowed, creeks cascaded from the rock. But how about some fresh-baked bread? How about a nice cut of meat?" ²¹When God heard that, he was furious— his anger flared against Jacob, he lost his temper with Israel. It was clear they didn't believe God, had no intention of trusting in his help. But God helped them anyway, commanded the clouds and gave orders that opened the gates of heaven. He rained down showers of manna to eat, he gave them the Bread of Heaven. They ate the bread of the mighty angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. He let East Wind break loose from the skies, gave a strong push to South Wind. This time it was birds that rained down— succulent birds, an abundance of birds. He aimed them right for the center of their camp; all round their tents there were birds. They ate and had their fill; he handed them everything they craved on a platter. But their greed knew no bounds; they stuffed their mouths with more and more. Finally, God was fed up, his anger erupted— he cut down their brightest and best, he laid low Israel's finest young men. ³²And—can you believe it?—they kept right on sinning; all those wonders and they still wouldn't believe! So their lives dribbled off to nothing— nothing to show for their lives but a ghost town. When he cut them down, they came running for help; they turned and pled for mercy. They gave witness that God was their rock, that High God was their redeemer, But they didn't mean a word of it; they lied through their teeth the whole time. They could not have cared less about him, wanted nothing to do with his Covenant. ³⁸And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn't destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath. He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn't much to them, How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel's Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he'd done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy, When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan. He turned the River and its streams to blood— not a drop of water fit to drink. He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which bedeviled them. He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts. He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards. He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds. His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives. He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham's virility. Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness. He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good. He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own. He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them— the tribes of Israel all had their own places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

remembered: Psalms 78:7, Psalms 78:11, Psalms 78:42, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:21

God was: Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:30, Deuteronomy 32:31

the high: Ail elyon goalom, "the strong God, the Most High, their redeemer," or kinsman: that one who possessed the right of redemption; the nearest akin to him who had forfeited his inheritance, as the word originally means; and hence is used for a redeemer; and here denotes Him who redeemed them from Egyptian bondage.

their redeemer: Exodus 6:6, Exodus 15:13, Deuteronomy 7:8, Deuteronomy 15:15, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 48:17, Isaiah 63:8, Isaiah 63:9, Titus 2:14

Reciprocal: Numbers 11:2 - cried Judges 21:4 - rose early 1 Samuel 12:10 - And they 1 Samuel 12:19 - Pray for thy 2 Chronicles 12:6 - humbled Psalms 42:9 - God Psalms 66:3 - submit themselves Psalms 107:19 - General Isaiah 44:24 - thy redeemer Acts 8:13 - believed Acts 16:17 - the most Hebrews 7:1 - the most

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they remembered that God was their Rock,.... Who had delivered them out of the hands of their enemies, had strengthened them against them, and supported and protected them, as well as supplied them with all good things, of whom they had been greatly unmindful; but affliction was a means of refreshing their memory; see Deuteronomy 32:15,

and the high God their Redeemer; who had redeemed them out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, with a high hand and a mighty arm, and thereby showed himself to be the most high God: between this and the following verse the Masorah puts this note,

"half of the book,''

i.e. half of the book of Psalms ends here.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they remembered that God was their Rock - See Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:31. Compare the notes at Psalms 18:2. That is, they were brought to reflect that their only security and defense was God. They were made to feel that they could not rely on themselves, or on any human power, and that their only trust was in God.

And the high God their Redeemer - The God who is exalted over all; the true and living God. The truth was brought to their recollection that it was He who had delivered them from bondage in Egypt, and who had brought them out into freedom. On the word “Redeemer,” see the notes at Isaiah 41:14. Compare Isaiah 43:14; Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 47:4; Isaiah 59:20; Psalms 25:22; Job 5:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:35. That God was their rock — They recollected in their affliction that Jehovah was their Creator, and their Father; the Rock, the Source, not only of their being, but of all their blessings; or, that he was their sole Protector.

And the high God their Redeemer. — ואל עליון גאלם veel elyon goalam, "And the strong God the Most High, their kinsman." That one who possessed the right of redemption; the nearest akin to him who had forfeited his inheritance; so the word originally means, and hence it is often used for a redeemer. The Hebrew word גאל goel answers to the Greek σωτηρ, a saviour; and is given to the Lord Jesus Christ, the strong God, the Most High, the Redeemer of a lost world. After this verse there is the following Masoretic note: חצי הספר chatsi hassepher, "The middle of the book." And thus the reader has arrived at the middle of the Psalter, a book for excellence unparalleled.