Psalm 78:57
New International Version
Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

New Living Translation
They turned back and were as faithless as their parents. They were as undependable as a crooked bow.

English Standard Version
but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

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

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

New King James Version
But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

New American Standard Bible
But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

NASB 1995
But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

NASB 1977
But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

Legacy Standard Bible
But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

Amplified Bible
They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].

Christian Standard Bible
They treacherously turned away like their ancestors; they became warped like a faulty bow.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They treacherously turned away like their fathers; they became warped like a faulty bow.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They turned back and they lied like their fathers and they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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

Contemporary English Version
They were as unfaithful as their ancestors, and they were as crooked as a twisted arrow.

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

English Revised Version
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They were disloyal and treacherous like their ancestors. They were like arrows shot from a defective bow.

Good News Translation
but were rebellious and disloyal like their ancestors, unreliable as a crooked arrow.

International Standard Version
They fell away and were as disloyal as their ancestors. They became unreliable, like a defective bow;

JPS Tanakh 1917
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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

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

New American Bible
They turned disloyal, faithless like their ancestors; they proved false like a slack bow.

NET Bible
They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

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

New Heart English Bible
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Webster's Bible Translation
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees. 57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow. 58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.…

Cross References
Psalm 44:17
All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

Psalm 44:18
Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Psalm 78:9
The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

Psalm 85:8
I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.

Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Ezekiel 20:27
Therefore, 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.

Ezekiel 20:28
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.


Treasury of Scripture

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

but

Psalm 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Judges 3:5-7,12
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: …

Ezekiel 20:27,28
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me…

they were

Psalm 78:8,10-37
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 stedfast with God…

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.

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














(57) Turned aside . . .--Better, turned like a relaxed bow. (See Note to Psalm 78:9.) The bows of the Hebrews, like those of other ancient nations, were probably, when unstrung, bent the reverse way to that assumed when strung, which makes the figure more expressive of the disposition which cannot be relied upon in the moment of need.

Verse 57. - But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers (comp. ver. 8, end the comment ad loc.). They were turned aside like a deceitful bow (comp. Hosea 7:16). A "deceitful bow" is one that fails in the hour of need, either breaking, or losing its strength, or sending its arrows wide of the mark.

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Hebrew
They turned back
וַיִּסֹּ֣גוּ (way·yis·sō·ḡū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5472: To move away, backslide

and were faithless
וַֽ֭יִּבְגְּדוּ (way·yiḇ·gə·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 898: To cover, to act covertly, to pillage

like their fathers,
כַּאֲבוֹתָ֑ם (ka·’ă·ḇō·w·ṯām)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

twisted
נֶ֝הְפְּכ֗וּ (neh·pə·ḵū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

like a faulty
רְמִיָּֽה׃ (rə·mî·yāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7423: Remissness, treachery

bow.
כְּקֶ֣שֶׁת (kə·qe·šeṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7198: A bow, for, shooting, the iris


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