اَلْمَزَامِيرُ 78:8

Smith Van Dyke Version

ولا يكونون مثل آبائهم جيلا زائغا وماردا جيلا لم يثبت قلبه ولم تكن روحه امينة لله

Bible Verse Review
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as their: Psalms 68:6, Psalms 106:7, Exodus 32:9, Exodus 33:3, Exodus 33:5, Exodus 34:9, Deuteronomy 9:6, Deuteronomy 9:13, Deuteronomy 31:27, 2 Kings 17:14, Ezekiel 2:3-8, Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 20:18, Matthew 23:31-33, Acts 7:51

set not: Heb. prepared not, Psalms 78:37, 2 Chronicles 12:14, 2 Chronicles 19:3, 2 Chronicles 20:33, 2 Chronicles 30:19

whose: Psalms 78:37, Deuteronomy 4:4, Joshua 14:8, Joshua 14:9, Acts 11:23

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:7 - from the day Deuteronomy 9:27 - look not Deuteronomy 32:5 - a perverse Joshua 22:15 - General Judges 2:19 - stubborn Nehemiah 9:16 - dealt Job 11:13 - prepare Psalms 51:10 - right Psalms 78:57 - they were Psalms 106:6 - General Isaiah 1:4 - a seed Isaiah 43:27 - first father Isaiah 48:4 - I knew Isaiah 63:10 - vexed Jeremiah 3:17 - imagination Jeremiah 11:10 - iniquities Jeremiah 13:10 - imagination Hosea 5:4 - They will not frame their doings Zechariah 1:4 - as Malachi 3:7 - from the Luke 1:17 - to make Luke 9:41 - perverse Luke 9:62 - No 1 Corinthians 15:58 - be ye Colossians 2:5 - and the Hebrews 3:10 - err

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And might not be as their fathers,.... This chiefly respects the Jews in Christ's time: though it also is an admonition to them in succeeding ages, and especially in the latter day, when they shall be instructed, called, and converted; and even to us, to whom the Gospel is preached, on whom the ends of the world are come, not to be disobedient, as the Jewish fathers were, and to take care we do not fall after the same example of unbelief; this opens the whole scope and general design of the psalm; see 1 Corinthians 10:6,

a stubborn and rebellions generation; as the generation in the wilderness was, Deuteronomy 9:6 and so were their posterity in Christ's time, Matthew 12:34,

a generation that set not their heart aright; to seek the Lord, serve and obey him; their hearts were removed far from him, and they were hypocritical in their prayers to him, and service of him:

and whose spirit was not steadfast with God; did not continue in the faith of God, in the true religion, but departed and apostatized from him; see Psalms 78:37. Apostasy is generally the fruit and effect of hypocrisy; all the following facts support the character which is here given of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And might not be as their fathers - Their ancestors, particularly in the wilderness, as they passed through it to the promised land. See Exodus 32:7-9; Exodus 33:3; Exodus 34:9; Acts 7:51-53.

A stubborn and rebellious generation - Stiff-necked, ungovernable; inclined to revolt. Nothing was more remarkable in their early history than this.

A generation that set not their heart aright - Margin, as in Hebrew, “prepared not their heart.” That is, they took no pains to keep their heart aright, or to cherish right feelings toward God. They yielded to any sudden impulse of passion, even when it led them to revolt against God. This is as true of sinners now as it was of them, that they “take no pains” to have their hearts right with God. If they did, there would be no difficulty in doing it. It is not with them “an object of desire” to have their hearts right with God, and hence, nothing is more easy or natural than that they should rebel and go astray.

And whose spirit was not stedfast with God - That is, they themselves did not maintain a firm trust in God. They yielded readily to every impulse, and every passion, even when it tended to draw them away wholly from him. There was no such “strength” of attachment to him as would lead them to resist temptation, and they easily fell into the sin of idolatry.