King James Version

Psalms 106:29

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

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וַ֭יַּכְעִיסוּvayakhisvand be angryכַּעַסconjunction, verb, hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and be angry”, the next action in the storyH3707to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignantbe angry, be grieved, take indignation, provoke (to anger, unto wrath), have sorrow, vex, be wroth.בְּמַֽעַלְלֵיהֶ֑םbemaalleyhemin doingמַעֲלָלpreposition, noun, common, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “in doing”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4611an act (good or bad)doing, endeavour, invention, work.וַתִּפְרָץvatifratsand breakפָּרַץconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “and break”, the next action in the storyH6555to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)[idiom] abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in, up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, scatter, urge.בָּ֝֗םbaminבָּ֝֗םpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “in”inמַגֵּפָֽהmagefahplagueמַגֵּפָהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “plague”, the ordinary formH4046a pestilence; by analogy, defeat([idiom] be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Thus they provoked Him with their doings, and the plague broke in upon them.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.

Young’s Literal Translation

And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

World English Bible

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

Darby Translation

And they provoked [him] to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.

Douay-Rheims

And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Thus they provoked Him with their doings, and the plague broke in upon them.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

and destruction was multiplied among them.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ παρώξυναν αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπληθύνθη ἐν αὐτοῖς ἡ πτῶσις.