Psalm 78:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When he killed them, they searched for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

When he slew them, then they sought him: And they returned and enquired early after God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

When He slew [some of] them, [the remainder] inquired after Him diligently, and they repented and sincerely sought God [for a time].

American Standard Version (1901)

When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.

Common English Bible

But whenever God killed them, they went after him! They would turn and earnestly search for God.

Psalm 78:34 Cross References

Isaiah 26:16

O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Isaiah 26:6

The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!

Hosea 5:15

I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face. In their distress they will beg my favor:

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.

Numbers 21:7

The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

Judges 4:3

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron and had oppressed the Israelites cruelly twenty years.