¶Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people, And He loathed His inheritance.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
- KJV Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
- BSB So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
- NKJV Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people, So that He abhorred His own inheritance.
- NLT That is why the Lord’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own special possession.
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Quick answer
God's anger burned against Israel, and he abhorred the very people he had chosen as his inheritance.
Overview
After rehearsing Israel's repeated rebellions, the psalmist shows that their sin provoked the LORD's righteous wrath even against his own covenant people. The word 'inheritance' underscores the seriousness: God's chosen treasure had become loathsome through persistent idolatry. This is not divine fickleness but holy response to sin, and it sets the stage for the mercy that follows, anticipating the gospel truth that God's holiness and his love meet at the cross.
Cross-references & the web
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- Judg 2:14Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
- Deut 9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
- Judg 2:20Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
- Deut 32:19Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- Judg 3:8Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
- Neh 9:27–38Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
- Lam 2:7The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
- Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
- Lev 20:23You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Ps 74:1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Ps 78:59–62When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
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