Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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.

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].

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.

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,

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Context Readings

Lessons From Israel's Past

56 But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes. 57 And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow. 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.

Cross References

Hosea 7:16

They turn, not to the Most High, like a slack bow; their officials will fall by the sword because of the anger of their tongue. This [is] their scorn in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:27-28

"Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Again [in] this your ancestors blasphemed me {at their display of infidelity toward me}." '

Judges 3:5-7

And the {Israelites} lived in the midst of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Judges 3:12

And again the {Israelites} did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. So Yahweh strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they did evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

Psalm 78:8

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

Psalm 78:10-37

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.

Psalm 78:41

So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel.

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