Psalms 78:22

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because they did not believe Godor rely on his salvation.

Hebrew Names Version
Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his yeshu`ah.

King James Version
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

English Standard Version
because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.

New Century Version
They had not believed God and had not trusted him to save them.

New English Translation
because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them.

Amplified Bible
Because they did not believe in God [they did not rely on Him, they did not adhere to Him], And they did not trust in His salvation (His power to save).

New American Standard Bible
Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.

World English Bible
Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.

Legacy Standard Bible
Because they did not believe in GodAnd did not trust in His salvation.

Berean Standard Bible
because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Contemporary English Version
They had refused to trust him, and they had doubted his saving power.

Complete Jewish Bible
because they had no faith in God, no trust in his power to save.

Darby Translation
Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;

Easy-to-Read Version
because they did not trust in him. They did not believe that God could save them.

George Lamsa Translation
Because they believed not in God and trusted not in his salvation:

Good News Translation
because they had no faith in him and did not believe that he would save them.

Lexham English Bible
because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation.

Literal Translation
because they did not believe in God and trusted not in His salvation.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When the LORDE herde this, he was wroth: so the fyre was kyndled in Iacob, and heuy displeasure agaynst Israel.

American Standard Version
Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.

Bible in Basic English
Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.

King James Version (1611)
Because they beleeued not in God: and trusted not in his saluation:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Because they beleued not in the Lord: nor did put their trust in his saluation.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

English Revised Version
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei bileueden not in God; nether hopiden in his heelthe.

Update Bible Version
Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in his salvation.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

New King James Version
Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in His salvation.

New Living Translation
for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them.

New Life Bible
because they did not believe in God. They did not trust in Him to save them.

New Revised Standard
because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, They believed not in God, Nor trusted in his salvation;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-22) Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.

Revised Standard Version
because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.

Young's Literal Translation
For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.

Contextual Overview

⁹The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth, ran off when the battle began. They were cowards to God's Covenant, refused to walk by his Word. They forgot what he had done— marvels he'd done right before their eyes. He performed miracles in plain sight of their parents in Egypt, out on the fields of Zoan. He split the Sea and they walked right through it; he piled the waters to the right and the left. He led them by day with a cloud, led them all the night long with a fiery torch. He split rocks in the wilderness, gave them all they could drink from underground springs; He made creeks flow out from sheer rock, and water pour out like a river. ¹⁷All they did was sin even more, rebel in the desert against the High God. They tried to get their own way with God, clamored for favors, for special attention. They whined like spoiled children, "Why can't God give us a decent meal in this desert? Sure, he struck the rock and the water flowed, creeks cascaded from the rock. But how about some fresh-baked bread? How about a nice cut of meat?" ²¹When God heard that, he was furious— his anger flared against Jacob, he lost his temper with Israel. It was clear they didn't believe God, had no intention of trusting in his help. But God helped them anyway, commanded the clouds and gave orders that opened the gates of heaven. He rained down showers of manna to eat, he gave them the Bread of Heaven. They ate the bread of the mighty angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. He let East Wind break loose from the skies, gave a strong push to South Wind. This time it was birds that rained down— succulent birds, an abundance of birds. He aimed them right for the center of their camp; all round their tents there were birds. They ate and had their fill; he handed them everything they craved on a platter. But their greed knew no bounds; they stuffed their mouths with more and more. Finally, God was fed up, his anger erupted— he cut down their brightest and best, he laid low Israel's finest young men. ³²And—can you believe it?—they kept right on sinning; all those wonders and they still wouldn't believe! So their lives dribbled off to nothing— nothing to show for their lives but a ghost town. When he cut them down, they came running for help; they turned and pled for mercy. They gave witness that God was their rock, that High God was their redeemer, But they didn't mean a word of it; they lied through their teeth the whole time. They could not have cared less about him, wanted nothing to do with his Covenant. ³⁸And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn't destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath. He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn't much to them, How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel's Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he'd done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy, When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan. He turned the River and its streams to blood— not a drop of water fit to drink. He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which bedeviled them. He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts. He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards. He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds. His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives. He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham's virility. Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness. He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good. He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own. He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them— the tribes of Israel all had their own places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 106:24, Isaiah 7:9, Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19, Hebrews 11:6, 1 John 5:10, Jude 1:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:28 - General Numbers 14:11 - believe me Deuteronomy 1:32 - General Deuteronomy 9:23 - ye believed 2 Kings 17:14 - did not believe Psalms 78:32 - believed Psalms 78:42 - remembered Zephaniah 3:2 - she trusted Mark 9:19 - O faithless Titus 3:8 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because they believed not in God,.... That he was able to give them bread, and provide flesh for them, or bring them through the wilderness to Canaan's land, as he had promised. God, and he only, is the object of faith, and he is to be believed in at all times, and for all things temporal and spiritual; and nothing is more displeasing to him than unbelief; for as faith gives glory to him, unbelief reflects dishonour upon him; faith sets its seal to him as true, but unbelief makes him a liar; and what is more provoking to man than to have his veracity called in question, and to be counted a liar? in short, as faith has salvation annexed to it, unbelief has damnation, and to whom did the Lord swear that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not? so great an evil is unbelief, and is the sin which "easily beset" c the Israelites, as appears from the context; see Hebrews 3:12

and trusted not in his salvation; which he promised them, and bid them stand still and see, Exodus 14:13, and of which they had had some proofs and instances in leading them through the Red sea, and thus far guiding them through the wilderness, and providing for them; and therefore had reason and encouragement to trust in the Lord, that he would yet be with them, and save them, and complete the mercy promised unto them.

c ευπεριστατον, which Suidas, in voce ενπερισ interprets a foolish thing; and it is thought by his learned editor Kusterus, in ibid. to allude to foolish persons, who stand round about a mountebank or juggler, gazing at his tricks with pleasure and admiration, being insnared by them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because they believed not in God - They did not believe in his power, or in his promises.

And trusted not in his salvation - In his power and his willingness to save. They had had abundant evidence of that power, but they still doubted his ability to save them, notwithstanding all that he had done for them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:22. They believed not in God — After all the miracles they had seen, they were not convinced that there was a Supreme Being! and, consequently, they did not trust in his salvation - did not expect the glorious rest which he had promised them. Their descendants in the present day are precisely in this state. Multitudes of them disbelieve the Divine origin of their law, and have given up all hopes of a Messiah.