Psalm 78/Notes/Lexical.v. 36.655733
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
v. 36 – We have preferred to gloss וַיְפַתּ֥וּהוּ as try to deceive as shedding light on the nature of the people's confession in v. 35, since YHWH was not, in fact, deceived (cf. HALOT's [985] attempt to persuade and DCH's [798] attempt to deceive).