Psalms 78:37 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 78:37

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

YLT

And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Psalms 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Acts 8:21
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

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Though there were partial reformations after chastisement, and God, in pity, withdrew His hand for a time, yet their general conduct was rebellious, and He was thus provoked to waste and destroy them, by long and fruitless wandering in the desert.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

): They did but flatter him with their mouth, as if they thought by fair speeches to prevail with him to revoke the sentence and remove the judgment, with a secret intention to break their word when the danger was over; they did not return to God with their whole heart, but feignedly, Jer. iii. All their professions, prayers, and promises, were extorted by the rack.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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