Psalms 78:7

That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

In Context

6that another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.

8That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:9Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 6:12And thou shalt have eaten and be full:

Deuteronomy 6:25And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

Esther 9:27And the things that they suffered, and that were afterwards changed, the Jews took upon themselves and their seed, and upon all that had a mind to be joined to their religion, so that it should be lawful for none to pass these days without solemnity: which the writing testifieth, and certain times require, as the years continually succeed one another.

Psalms 62:5But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

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 →

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