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Psalm 78:11

They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
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The words “he had shown them” make the forgetting sobering: these people had received evidence of God’s deeds and still refused his law.

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Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 77:11I will remember the LORD’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.Remembering God’s deeds and wonders is the shared concern: Psalm 77 voices a resolve where Psalm 78 records a failure.
Psalm 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,Both psalms describe people forgetting God’s works, with Psalm 106 adding their refusal to wait for his counsel.
Psalm 78:42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;Both verses recount forgotten acts of God; verse 42 names his redemption from the adversary as one such act.
Psalm 103:7He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.God made his deeds known to Israel; Psalm 78 records their failure to remember what he had shown them.
Judges 8:34The children of Israel didn’t remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;Israel’s forgetfulness links these accounts, with Judges naming the God who had delivered them from their enemies.
Nehemiah 9:17and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to …Forgetting God’s wonders accompanies refusal to obey in both accounts of his people.
Deuteronomy 32:18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.Both passages charge God’s people with forgetting, whether his wondrous deeds or God himself as the one who gave them birth.
Jeremiah 2:32“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.Both name forgetfulness among God’s people, directed toward his deeds in the psalm and toward God himself in Jeremiah.
Deuteronomy 7:18you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:Deuteronomy commands remembrance of God’s deeds in Egypt, while Psalm 78 recounts forgetfulness before describing those deeds.
Hosea 2:13I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and …Forgetting accompanies unfaithfulness in both settings: refusal to keep God’s covenant in Psalm 78 and worship of the Baals in Hosea.
Where this verse fits

Gratitude. feeling distant from God. sermon or Bible study notes.

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Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 78:11–13 and write down what God did

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Encouragement

The psalm records the wonders that the people forgot. Their forgetfulness did not erase what God had done: he split the sea and brought them through.

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