Psalm 78:57 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵⁷ but turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁷ But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁷ 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)

⁵⁷ But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Common English Bible

⁵⁷ They turned away, became faithless just like their ancestors; they twisted away like a defective bow.

Psalm 78:57 Cross References

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not to the Most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Psalm 78:8

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psalm 78:41

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Judges 3:12

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.

Isaiah 1:4

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.