Parallel Verses

Amplified


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].

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

They treacherously turned away like their fathers;
they became warped like a faulty bow.

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Bible in Basic English

Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And they will draw back, and they will transgress as their fathers: they were turned as a bow of deceit

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow.

Modern King James verseion

but they turned back, and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceiving bow.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

But drew back and dealt treacherously, like their fathers, They turned aside, like deceitful bowmen;

Webster

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 turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

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Bow

Fausets

Morish

Bow

Context Readings

Lessons From Israel's Past

56
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies (laws).
57 
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].
58
For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship]
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].


Cross References

Hosea 7:16


They turn, but they do not turn upward to the Most High.
They are like a poorly crafted bow [that misses the mark];
Their princes shall fall by the sword
Because of the insolence of their tongue.
This will be cause for their mockery and disdain in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:27-28

“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Again in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in that they acted faithlessly and treacherously against Me.

Judges 3:5-7

And the Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites;

Judges 3:12

Now the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, since they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Psalm 78:8


And not be like their fathers—
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 78:10-37


They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk according to His law;

Psalm 78:41


Again and again they tempted God,
And distressed the Holy One of Israel.

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