Psalm 78:57 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous bow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But they turned back and dealt unfaithfully and treacherously like their fathers; they were twisted like a warped and deceitful bow [that will not respond to the archer's aim].

American Standard Version (1901)

But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Common English Bible

They turned away, became faithless just like their ancestors; they twisted away like a defective bow.

Psalm 78:57 Cross References

Psalm 78:41

They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:8

and that they should not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Isaiah 1:4

Woe, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who act corruptly, who have forsaken the Lord, who have despised the Holy One of Israel, [[who are utterly estranged!]]

Hosea 7:16

They turn to that which does not profit; they have become like a defective bow; their officials shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongue. So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt.

Judges 3:12

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened King Eglon of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.