Psalms 78:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

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  • Ps 78:37 : 37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.
  • Ezek 20:18 : 18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:
  • Deut 31:27 : 27 For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?
  • 2 Chr 30:7 : 7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.
  • Exod 33:3 : 3 Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.
  • Exod 33:5 : 5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.
  • Exod 34:9 : 9 And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.
  • Deut 4:4 : 4 But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.
  • Deut 9:6-7 : 6 Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. 7 Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.
  • Deut 9:13 : 13 And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:
  • Deut 9:24 : 24 From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.
  • Job 11:13 : 13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;
  • Ps 68:6 : 6 Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
  • 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.
  • 2 Chr 20:33 : 33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.
  • Josh 14:8-9 : 8 My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart. 9 And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart.
  • Matt 23:31-33 : 31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death. 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:
  • Ezek 2:3-8 : 3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day. 4 And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord. 5 And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them. 6 And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people. 7 And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled. 8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.

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  • Ps 78:6-7
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    6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

    7 So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

  • Ps 78:37-38
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    37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

    38 But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

    8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

    17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
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    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

    15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

  • Ps 78:56-57
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    56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

    57 Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

  • Ps 78:9-11
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    9 The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

    10 They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

    11 They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5 They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

  • Heb 3:8-10
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    8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

    9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

    10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;

  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8 Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

    9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

    10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

  • Jer 7:26
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    26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
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    40 But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Judg 2:10
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    10 And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

  • Deut 32:20
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    20 And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.

  • Heb 8:9
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    9 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

  • Ps 78:40
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    40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

  • Ezek 20:18
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    18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

  • Ps 106:7
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    7 Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

  • Ps 78:4
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    4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

  • Jer 5:23
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    23 But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

  • Lam 5:7
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    7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23 But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

  • Num 14:23
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    23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

  • Deut 1:35
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    35 Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,

  • Ps 78:30
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    30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 8:58
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    58 Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.

  • Jer 11:8
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    8 But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.

  • Ps 78:42
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    42 They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;

  • Deut 21:18
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    18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

  • Judg 2:19-20
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    19 But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.

    20 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;

  • Jer 16:12
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    12 And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me: