Psalms 78:8
Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor.
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In Context
7For they have devoured Jacob, and they have desolated his place.
Cross References
Exodus 33:3and so that you may enter into a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up with you, since you are a stiff-necked people, lest perhaps I may destroy you on the way.”
Exodus 34:9he said: “If I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, I beg you to walk with us, (for the people are stiff-necked) and take away our iniquities and our sin, and so possess us.”
Deuteronomy 9:6Therefore, know that the Lord your God will not give you this excellent land as a possession due to your justices, for you are a very stiff-necked people.
Deuteronomy 9:24Instead, you were ever rebellious, from the day when I first began to know you.
Joshua 14:8But my brothers, who had ascended with me, broke the heart of the people. And I nevertheless followed the Lord my God.
1 Samuel 8:8In accord with all their works, which they have done from the day when I led them away from Egypt, even to this day: just as they have forsaken me, and served foreign gods, so now they also do to you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:2-9
The Importance of Religious Instruction. 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our… Read the whole commentary →