World English Bible
Psalms 78:9
“The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.”
Verse in context — Psalms 78
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that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
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and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
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They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
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They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
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