Psalm 78:57 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁵⁷ But, like their fathers, turned back, and dealt unfaithfully: Aside they turned, like a bow that shoots deceitfully.

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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

Psalm 78:41

Yea, turning back, they tempted God, and limits set upon Him, who in midst of Isr'el is the only Holy One.

Psalm 78:8

And might not, like their fathers, be a stiff rebellious race; A race not right in heart; with God whose sp'rit not stedfast was.