Psalms 78:37

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They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 78:8 : 8 Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.
  • Acts 8:21 : 21 You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!
  • Deut 31:20 : 20 For after I have brought them to the land I promised to their ancestors– one flowing with milk and honey– and they eat their fill and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.
  • Ps 44:17-18 : 17 All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us. 18 We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.
  • Hos 7:16-8:1 : 16 They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt. 1 God Will Raise Up the Assyrians to Attack Israel Sound the alarm! An eagle looms over the temple of the LORD! For they have broken their covenant with me, and have rebelled against my law.
  • Hos 10:2 : 2 Their hearts are slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The LORD will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:36
    80%

    36But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him.

  • Ps 78:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    10They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

    11They forgot what he had done, the amazing things he had shown them.

  • Ps 78:8
    78%

    8Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

  • Heb 8:9
    77%

    9“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

  • Ps 78:38
    77%

    38Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

  • Ps 78:56-58
    3 verses
    75%

    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

    57They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

    58They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

  • Ps 78:32
    74%

    32Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.

  • Hos 6:7
    74%

    7Indictments Against the Cities of Israel and Judah At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

  • Ps 78:30
    74%

    30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

  • Jer 11:8
    72%

    8But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’”

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.

    15They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Ps 78:22
    72%

    22because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them.

  • Job 34:27
    72%

    27because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

  • Jer 11:10
    72%

    10They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

  • Neh 9:35
    72%

    35Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible goodness that you had lavished on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
    71%

    12This happened because they did not obey the LORD their God and broke his covenant with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the LORD’s servant, had commanded.

  • Neh 9:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

    17They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

  • Judg 2:20
    71%

    20A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

  • Heb 3:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

    11“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”

  • Jer 31:32
    71%

    32It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the LORD.

  • Ps 78:40
    71%

    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
    70%

    40But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.

  • Deut 32:5
    70%

    5His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children– this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

  • Ps 106:13
    70%

    13They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions.

  • Ps 78:42
    70%

    42They did not remember what he had done, how he delivered them from the enemy,

  • Ps 5:9
    70%

    9For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

  • Ps 106:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

    25They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD.

  • Ps 44:17
    70%

    17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.

  • Jer 7:24
    70%

    24But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better.

  • Isa 57:17
    70%

    17I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

  • Ps 55:20
    70%

    20He attacks his friends; he breaks his solemn promises to them.

  • Judg 2:17
    70%

    17But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.

  • Deut 29:25
    70%

    25Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 89:33
    70%

    33But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise.

  • Heb 3:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

  • Ezek 20:16
    69%

    16I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.

  • Hos 7:2
    69%

    2They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

  • Ezek 17:14
    69%

    14so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

  • Jer 3:10
    69%

    10In spite of all this, Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,” says the LORD.

  • Ps 106:45
    69%

    45He remembered his covenant with them, and relented because of his great loyal love.

  • Neh 9:26
    69%

    26“Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Ps 106:32
    69%

    32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,