Psalms 78:7 · KJV
“That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:”
— Psalms 78:7
That the generation to come might know {them, even} the children {which} should be born; {who} should arise and declare {them} to their children:
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. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}
Psalms 78 — Context
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6That the generation to come might know {them, even} the children {which} should be born; {who} should arise and declare {them} to their children:
7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8And 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. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}
9The children of Ephraim, {being} armed, {and} carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. {carrying: Heb. throwing forth}
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:29
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here {are} they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
John 14:21-24
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
1 John 3:22-24
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Jeremiah 17:7-8
Blessed {is} the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Psalms 130:6-7
My soul {waiteth} for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: {I say, more than} they that watch for the morning. {I say...: or, which watch unto}