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37For their heart was not right{H8737)} with him, neither were they stedfast{H8738)} in his covenant.
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Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-39)In these verses, I. The psalmist observes the late rebukes of Providence that the people of Israel had been under, which they had brought upon themselves by their dealing treacherously with God, Ps. 78:9-11. The children of Ephraim , in which tribe Shiloh was, though they were well armed and shot with bows, yet turned back in the day of battle . This seems to refer to that shameful defeat which th…
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