They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Parallel translations
- WEB They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
- BSB They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
- NKJV They did not keep the covenant of God; They refused to walk in His law,
- NASB They did not keep the covenant of God And refused to walk in His Law;
- NLT They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his instructions.
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They did not keep God's covenant and refused to walk in His law.
Overview
The root of Israel's failure was covenant unfaithfulness and unwillingness to obey God's instruction. Their disobedience was a deliberate refusal, not mere weakness. This diagnosis of rebellion sets the pattern the psalm traces, highlighting the constant tension between God's faithfulness and His people's faithlessness.
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- Deut 31:20For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
- Judg 2:10–12And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
- Deut 31:16And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- Neh 9:26–29Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Jer 31:32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
- 2 Kgs 17:14–15Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
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