Psalms 78:37

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

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.

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

English Standard Version
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to 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.

Amplified Bible
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful to His covenant.

New American Standard Bible
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful with His covenant.

World English Bible
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.

Legacy Standard Bible
For their heart was not prepared to remain with Him,Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Berean Standard Bible
Their hearts were disloyal 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.

Darby Translation
For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

Easy-to-Read Version
Their hearts were not really with him. They were not faithful to the agreement he gave them.

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.

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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For their herte was not whole with him, nether continued they in his couenaunt.

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.

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yet for all that he beyng most merciful: cleane pardoned all their misdeedes, and destroyed them not.

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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the herte of hem was not riytful with hym; nethir thei weren had feithful in his testament.

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 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.

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.

Revised Standard Version
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.

Young's Literal Translation
And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

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

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.