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King James Version

Psalms 78:37

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Compassion;   Forgiveness;   God;   Man;   Trouble;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Decision;   Steadfastness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wrath;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Evil;   Forgiveness;   Hypocrisy;   Time;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Tongue;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger (Wrath) of God;   Asaph;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
Christian Standard Bible®
their hearts were insincere toward him,and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
Hebrew Names Version
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Easy-to-Read Version
Their hearts were not really with him. They were not faithful to the agreement he gave them.
Amplified Bible
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful to His covenant.
American Standard Version
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Contemporary English Version
they were unfaithful and broke their promises.
Complete Jewish Bible
for their hearts were not right with him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.
King James Version (1611)
For their heart was not right with him: neither were they stedfast in his couenant.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
English Revised Version
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Berean Standard Bible
Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
Lexham English Bible
For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant.
Literal Translation
For their heart was not steadfast with Him; and they were not faithful in His covenant.
New Century Version
Their hearts were not really loyal to God; they did not keep his agreement.
New English Translation
They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
New King James Version
For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
New Living Translation
Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant.
New Life Bible
For their heart was not right toward Him. They were not faithful to His agreement.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, their heart, was not fixed with him, Nor were they trusty in his covenant:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-37) But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.
George Lamsa Translation
For their hearts were not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
Good News Translation
They were not loyal to him; they were not faithful to their covenant with him.
New American Standard Bible
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful with His covenant.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yet for all that he beyng most merciful: cleane pardoned all their misdeedes, and destroyed them not.
New Revised Standard
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
Darby Translation
For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the herte of hem was not riytful with hym; nethir thei weren had feithful in his testament.
Young's Literal Translation
And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.
World English Bible
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Revised Standard Version
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
Update Bible Version
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Webster's Bible Translation
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
Bible in Basic English
And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For their herte was not whole with him, nether continued they in his couenaunt.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
Legacy Standard Bible
For their heart was not prepared to remain with Him,Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Contextual Overview

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. 14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

their heart: Psalms 119:80, Hosea 7:14, Hosea 7:16, Hosea 10:2, Acts 8:21

stedfast: Psalms 78:8, Psalms 44:17, Psalms 44:18, Deuteronomy 31:20, Hosea 8:1

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 19:14 - forsaken 2 Chronicles 12:14 - he prepared 2 Chronicles 24:2 - Joash 2 Chronicles 25:2 - but not Ezra 10:12 - so must we do Psalms 33:1 - praise Psalms 51:10 - right Psalms 119:10 - my whole Psalms 119:118 - their deceit Isaiah 63:8 - children Jeremiah 3:10 - Judah Ezekiel 20:17 - mine Ezekiel 33:31 - for with John 6:26 - Ye seek 1 Corinthians 15:58 - be ye Colossians 2:5 - and the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For their heart was not right with him,.... Neither prepared and ready to any good work, but reprobate thereunto; nor steady, fixed, and established, as a good man's heart is, trusting in the Lord; but wavering, fickle, and inconstant; nor true, faithful, and upright; but turning aside like a deceitful bow, as is afterwards said, Psalms 78:57,

neither were they steadfast in his covenant; which was made with them at Sinai, though they promised to be obedient, and to do all the Lord said unto them; but this covenant they broke, though he were an husband to them; see Exodus 24:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For their heart was not right with him - Luther renders this, “Not fast with him.” The Hebrew word means “to fit, to prepare;” and the idea is, that the heart was not “adjusted” to such a profession, or did not “accord” with such a promise or pledge. It was a mere profession made by the lips, while the heart remained unaffected. See the notes at Psalms 78:8.

Neither were they stedfast in his covenant - In maintaining his covenant, or in adhering to it. Compare Psalms 25:14; Psalms 44:17. See also Psalms 78:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:37. Their heart was not right — When the heart is wrong, the life is wrong; and because their heart was not right with God, therefore they were not faithful in his covenant.


 
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