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New Living Translation

Psalms 78:37

Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep 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

Legacy Standard Bible
For their heart was not prepared to remain with Him,Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yet for all that he beyng most merciful: cleane pardoned all their misdeedes, and destroyed them not.
Darby Translation
For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
New King James Version
For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
Literal Translation
For their heart was not steadfast with Him; and they were not 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.
World English Bible
For their heart was not right 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.
King James Version
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For their herte was not whole with him, nether continued they in his couenaunt.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
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.
New English Translation
They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
George Lamsa Translation
For their hearts were not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
Hebrew Names Version
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.
New Life Bible
For their heart was not right toward Him. They were not faithful to His agreement.
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.
New Revised Standard
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
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.
Lexham English Bible
For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant.
English Standard Version
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.
New American Standard Bible
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful with His covenant.
New Century Version
Their hearts were not really loyal to God; they did not keep his agreement.
Good News Translation
They were not loyal to him; they were not faithful to their covenant with him.
Christian Standard Bible®
their hearts were insincere toward Him, and they were unfaithful to 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.
Revised Standard Version
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.

Contextual Overview

9 The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled on the day of battle. 10 They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his instructions. 11 They forgot what he had done— the great wonders he had shown them, 12 the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt. 13 For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls! 14 In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and all night by a pillar of fire. 15 He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring. 16 He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river! 17 Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. 18 They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.

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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