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Psalms 78:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Psalms 78:22 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Psalms 78:22 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/psalms/78/22.

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Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    For they have not believed in God, || Nor have they trusted in His salvation.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation [yeshuat].
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    for they didn't believe in God and didn't trust him to take care of them.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.

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Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 2 nouns
  • 1 conjunction
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • הֶ֭אֱמִינוּ Hiphil · Perfect
  • בָ֝טְח֗וּ Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 7 Hebrew tokens and 12 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to Psalms 78:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Hebrews 3:18–19 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
  • Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet in this thing you didn't believe Yahweh your God,
  • Hebrews 3:12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
  • Hebrews 11:6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
  • Jude 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.
  • Psalms 106:24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,
  • Isaiah 7:9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"
  • 1 John 5:10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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You’re reading Greek Psalm 77 (Hebrew Psalm 78). The Septuagint counts the superscription, so verse numbers can differ from the Hebrew — chapter-level alignment, not verse-by-verse. Numbering follows Rahlfs.

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Hebrew Psalms 78:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כִּ֤י לֹ֣א הֶ֭אֱמִינוּ בֵּאלֹהִ֑ים וְלֹ֥א בָ֝טְח֗וּ בִּֽישׁוּעָתֽוֹ

Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Greek Psalm 77:22 Septuagint · lemma form

ὅτι οὐ πιστεύω ἐν ὁ θεός οὐδέ ἐλπίζω ἐπί ὁ σωτήριον αὐτός

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

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on Psalms 78:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Psa 78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

Ver. 22. Because they believed not in God] As faith is a radical and complex grace; so is unbelief a radical sin, a teeming vice, Heb 3:12, a wellspring of wickedness; many sins are bound up in it, as Cicero saith of parricide.

And trusted not in his salvation] i.e. In his saving promises.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

J. A. Alexander on Psalms

Joseph Addison Alexander

22. (Psa 78:22) Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. Compare the terms of the history in Exo 14:13, Num 14:11.

Joseph Addison Alexander, The Psalms Translated and Explained (1850) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

That is, in his fatherly providence, whereby he careth for his, and provideth sufficiently.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 22. They believed not in God] After all the miracles they had seen, they were not convinced that there was a Supreme Being! and, consequently, they did not trust in his salvation - did not expect the glorious rest which he had promised them. Their descendants in the present day are precisely in this state. Multitudes of them disbelieve the Divine origin of their law, and have given up all hopes of a Messiah.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

22. For a moment they had believed (Exo_14:31), but they soon fell away. Cp. Num_14:11, a verse which might serve as a motto for this Psalm. his salvation] Of which they had had such marvellous proof in the Exodus (Exo_14:13; Exo_15:2).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Though he had commanded the clouds from above,.... Which were round about him, his chariots, and the dust of his feet; and which were at his command to go here and there, and carry and let down provisions for his people, as they did:

and opened the doors of heaven; as a large granary, from whence the manna, afterwards called the corn of heaven, was given out in great abundance, which is signified by opening the doors; see Mal 3:10.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because they believed not in God - They did not believe in his power, or in his promises.

And trusted not in his salvation - In his power and his willingness to save. They had had abundant evidence of that power, but they still doubted his ability to save them, notwithstanding all that he had done for them.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

That he both could and would save them from the famine and destruction which they feared.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Treasury of David

Charles H. Spurgeon

Ver. 22. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. This is the master sin, the crying sin. Like Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, it sins and makes Israel to sin; it is in itself evil and the parent of evils. It was this sin which shut Israel out of Canaan, and it shuts myriads out of heaven. God is ready to save, combining power with willingness, but rebellious man will not trust his Saviour, and therefore is condemned already. In the text it appears as if all Israel's other sins were as nothing compared with this; this is the peculiar spot which the Lord points at, the special provocation which angered him. From this let every unbeliever learn to tremble more at his unbelief than at anything else. If he be no fornicator, or thief, or liar, let him reflect that it is quite enough to condemn him that he trusts not in God's salvation.

None.

Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

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.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Trusted not - That he both could, and would save them from the famine which they feared.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

trusted

(See Scofield "Psa 2:12")

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Psalms, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yᵉshûwʻâh (“salvation”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “salvation” (yᵉshûwʻâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Hebrews 3:18–19, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “not” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «הֶ֭אֱמִינוּ» is a Hiphil Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and J. A. Alexander on Psalms read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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