Psalms 78:37

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

³⁶ But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

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

³⁸ And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
KJV: For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
WEB: For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
ASV: For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
DARBY: For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
BLB: And their heart was not established with Him, and they were not faithful to His covenant.

ÅB: Og deres hjerte hang ikke fast ved ham, og de var ikke tro mot hans pakt.
OTB: For deres hjerter var ikke standhaftige mot Ham,
Og de var ikke trofaste mot Hans pakt.
B1930: Og deres hjerte hang ikke fast ved ham, og de var ikke tro mot hans pakt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 78:8
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
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Acts 8:21
You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
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Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
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Hosea 7:14
They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
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Psalms 119:80
May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
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Deuteronomy 31:20
When 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.
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Hosea 10:2
Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.
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Hosea 7:16–8:1
They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
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