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I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

Psalms 78:10

In 11 translations

BSB
They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
KJV
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
WEB
They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
ASV
They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
LSV
They have not kept the covenant of God, || And they have refused to walk in His law,
YLT
They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,
DBY
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;Elohim
DRC77:10
They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.
GNV
They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,
JPS
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law;
LXXE77:10
They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
לֹ֣א שָׁ֭מְרוּ בְּרִ֣ית אֱלֹהִ֑ים וּ֝בְתוֹרָת֗וֹ מֵאֲנ֥וּ לָלֶֽכֶת׃
LXX-Br77:10
Οὐκ ἐφύλαξαν τὴν διαθήκην τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἤθελον πορεύεσθαι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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…
  • Judges 2:10–12After 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. And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD…
  • 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…
  • Nehemiah 9:26–29But 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. So You delivered…
  • 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.
  • 2 Kings 17:14–15But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God. They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees…

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  • 77:10 in some Bibles
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