Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They watched not the covenant of God, and in his law they refused to go;
New American Standard Bible
And refused to
King James Version
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Holman Bible
and refused to live by His law.
International Standard Version
They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to live by his Law.
A Conservative Version
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law.
American Standard Version
They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
Amplified
They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk according to His law;
Bible in Basic English
They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;
Darby Translation
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
King James 2000
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Lexham Expanded Bible
They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.
Modern King James verseion
They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His Law.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.
NET Bible
They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.
New Heart English Bible
They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.
The Emphasized Bible
They kept not the covenant of God, And, in his law, refused to walk;
Webster
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
World English Bible
They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,
Themes
Disobedience to God » Provokes his anger
The law of God » The wicked » Refuse to walk in
Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to walk in the ways of God
Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to walk in the ways of God
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
9 The sons of Ephraim bending, lifting up the bow, turned in the day of the encounter. 10 They watched not the covenant of God, and in his law they refused to go; 11 And they will forget his works and his wonders which he caused them to see.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:16
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Behold thee lying down with thy fathers, and this people rising up and committing fornication after the gods of the foreigner of the land where he going there in the midst of him, and he forsook me and brake my covenant which I made with him.
Deuteronomy 31:20
For I shall bring him to the land which I sware to his fathers, flowing milk and honey; and he ate and was satisfied and was fat, and turned to other gods, and they served them and despised me and brake my covenant
Judges 2:10-12
And also all that generation were gathered to its fathers; and another generation will arise after them not knowing Jehovah, and also the works which he did to Israel
2 Kings 17:14-15
And they heard not, and they will harden their neck as the neck Of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.
Nehemiah 9:26-29
And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.
Jeremiah 31:32
Not according to the covenant which I cut out with their fathers in the day I laid hold upon their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt; which they brake my covenant, and I was Lord over them, says Jehovah.