Catholic Public Domain Version
"May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God. "
— Psalms 77:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?”
“Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? ”
“Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?”
“Has his loyal love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed forever?”
“That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.”
“Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?”
“Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?”
And he has received testimony with Jacob, and he has set a law within Israel. Such great things, he has commanded our fathers, so as to make these things known to their sons,
so that another generation might know them, and so that the sons, who will be born and who will grow up, shall describe them to their sons.
So then, may they put their hope in God, and may they not forget the works of God, and may they seek his commandments.
May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God.
The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, have been turned back in the day of battle.
They have not kept the covenant of God. And they were not willing to walk in his law.
And they have been forgetful of his benefits, and of his miracle, which he revealed to them.