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The ranks of Ephraimite archers,[a]
    retreated on the day of battle.
10 They did not keep God’s covenant;
    they refused to walk according to his law.
11 They forgot his deeds,
    the wonders that he had shown them.

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Footnotes

  1. 78:9 Ephraimite archers: Ephraim was the most important tribe of the Northern Kingdom. Its military defeat (here unspecified) demonstrates its infidelity to God, who otherwise would have protected it.

The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows,(A)
    turned back on the day of battle;(B)
10 they did not keep God’s covenant(C)
    and refused to live by his law.(D)
11 They forgot what he had done,(E)
    the wonders he had shown them.

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