Psalms 78:57

In 11 translations

BSB

They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

KJV

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

WEB

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

ASV

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

LSV

And they turn back, || And deal treacherously like their fathers, || They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

YLT

And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

DBY

And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

DRC77:57

And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

GNV

But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

JPS

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

LXXE77:57

And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow.

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WLC

וַיִּסֹּ֣גוּ וַֽ֭יִּבְגְּדוּ כַּאֲבוֹתָ֑ם נֶ֝הְפְּכ֗וּ כְּקֶ֣שֶׁת רְמִיָּֽה׃

LXX-Br77:57

Καὶ ἀπέστρεψαν, καὶ ἠσυνθέτησαν καθὼς καὶ οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν, μετεστράφησαν εἰς τόξον στρεβλόν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Hosea 7:16They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
• Ezekiel 20:27–28Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by their unfaithfulness against Me. When I brought them into the land…
• Psalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
• Judges 3:5–7Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and…
• Judges 3:12Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
• Psalms 78:41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• Psalms 78:10–37They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law. They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them. He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. He…

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