Psalm 78:11 They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.

◄ Psalm 78:11 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.

English Standard Version
They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.

New American Standard Bible
They forgot His deeds And His miracles that He had shown them.

King James Bible
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They forgot what He had done, the wonderful works He had shown them.

International Standard Version
They have forgotten what he has done, his awesome deeds that they witnessed.

American Standard Version
And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.

Darby Bible Translation
And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

Young's Literal Translation
And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:17
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not.

Psalm 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Psalm 78:32
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

Psalm 103:7
He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel.

Psalm 106:7
Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of your mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

Psalm 106:13
They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

Psalm 106:21
They forgot God their savior, which had done great things in Egypt;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

78:9-39. Sin dispirits men, and takes away the heart. Forgetfulness of God's works is the cause of disobedience to his laws. This narrative relates a struggle between God's goodness and man's badness. The Lord hears all our murmurings and distrusts, and is much displeased. Those that will not believe the power of God's mercy, shall feel the fire of his indignation. Those cannot be said to trust in God's salvation as their happiness at last, who can not trust his providence in the way to it. To all that by faith and prayer, ask, seek, and knock, these doors of heaven shall at any time be opened; and our distrust of God is a great aggravation of our sins. He expressed his resentment of their provocation; not in denying what they sinfully lusted after, but in granting it to them. Lust is contented with nothing. Those that indulge their lust, will never be estranged from it. Those hearts are hard indeed, that will neither be melted by the mercies of the Lord, nor broken by his judgments. Those that sin still, must expect to be in trouble still. And the reason why we live with so little comfort, and to so little purpose, is, because we do not live by faith. Under these rebukes they professed repentance, but they were not sincere, for they were not constant. In Israel's history we have a picture of our own hearts and lives. God's patience, and warnings, and mercies, imbolden them to harden their hearts against his word. And the history of kingdoms is much the same. Judgments and mercies have been little attended to, until the measure of their sins has been full. And higher advantages have not kept churches from declining from the commandments of God. Even true believers recollect, that for many a year they abused the kindness of Providence. When they come to heaven, how will they admire the Lord's patience and mercy in bringing them to his kingdom!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9-11. The privileges of the first-born which belonged to Joseph (1Ch 5:1, 2) were assigned to Ephraim by Jacob (Ge 48:1). The supremacy of the tribe thus intimated was recognized by its position (in the marching of the nation to Canaan) next to the ark (Nu 2:18-24), by the selection of the first permanent locality for the ark within its borders at Shiloh, and by the extensive and fertile province given for its possession. Traces of this prominence remained after the schism under Rehoboam, in the use, by later writers, of Ephraim for Israel (compare Ho 5:3-14; 11:3-12). Though a strong, well-armed tribe, and, from an early period, emulous and haughty (compare Jos 17:14; Jud 8:1-3; 2Sa 19:41), it appears, in this place, that it had rather led the rest in cowardice than courage; and had incurred God's displeasure, because, diffident of His promise, though often heretofore fulfilled, it had failed as a leader to carry out the terms of the covenant, by not driving out the heathen (Ex 23:24; De 31:16; 2Ki 17:15).