Psalm 78:22
New International Version
for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.

New Living Translation
for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them.

English Standard Version
because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.

Berean Standard Bible
because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

King James Bible
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

New King James Version
Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in His salvation.

New American Standard Bible
Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.

NASB 1995
Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.

NASB 1977
Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in His salvation.

Legacy Standard Bible
Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.

Amplified Bible
Because they did not believe in God [they did not rely on Him, they did not adhere to Him], And they did not trust in His salvation (His power to save).

Christian Standard Bible
because they did not believe God or rely on his salvation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

American Standard Version
Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For they did not trust in God and were not convinced of his salvation.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

Contemporary English Version
They had refused to trust him, and they had doubted his saving power.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.

English Revised Version
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because they did not believe God or trust him to save them.

Good News Translation
because they had no faith in him and did not believe that he would save them.

International Standard Version
because they didn't believe in God and didn't trust in his deliverance.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in His salvation.

Literal Standard Version
For they have not believed in God, | Nor have they trusted in His salvation.

Majority Standard Bible
because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

New American Bible
For they did not believe in God, did not trust in his saving power.

NET Bible
because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them.

New Revised Standard Version
because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.

New Heart English Bible
because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

World English Bible
because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

Young's Literal Translation
For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.

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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
21Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel, 22because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation. 23Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.…

Cross References
Hebrews 3:18
And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

Deuteronomy 1:32
But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 9:23
And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, "Go up and possess the land that I have given you." But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

Zephaniah 3:2
She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.


Treasury of Scripture

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

Psalm 106:24
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

Isaiah 7:9
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

Hebrews 3:12,18,19
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God…

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














Verse 22. - Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. They trusted neither in God's power nor in his love; they neither believed that he would nor that he could save them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
because
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they did not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

believe
הֶ֭אֱמִינוּ (he·’ĕ·mî·nū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 539: To confirm, support

God
בֵּאלֹהִ֑ים (bê·lō·hîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

or rely
בָ֝טְח֗וּ (ḇā·ṭə·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 982: To trust, be confident, sure

on His salvation.
בִּֽישׁוּעָתֽוֹ׃ (bî·šū·‘ā·ṯōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3444: Something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity


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