Psalms 78:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.”
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BSBPD
“They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 78:10 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 16:28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
- Deuteronomy 31:16And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
- Deuteronomy 31:20When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.
- Judges 2:10After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.
- 2 Kings 17:14But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
- 2 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
- Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
- Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
- Jeremiah 31:32It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
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