Psalm 78:10

Translations

Modern

They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

Traditional

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Literal

They did not keep the covenant of God, and in His law they refused to walk,

Latin

Non custodierunt testamentum Dei, et in lege ejus noluerunt ambulare.

Original

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English

They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

Notes

Psalms 78:9–11

Ephraim was the second son of Joseph. He received a special blessing from Jacob (Genesis 48:15–20; 49:22–26; Deuteronomy 33:13–17). His descendants inherited land with fertile valleys and important roads (Judges 8:2). However, the people of Ephraim did not follow God's covenant.

Psalms 78:1–72

This wisdom psalm urges people to learn wisdom and share it faithfully.

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Deuteronomy 31:20
When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
Judges 2:10–12
After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.
Nehemiah 9:26–29
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
2 Kings 17:14–15
But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

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