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Modern King James verseion
but they turned back, and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceiving bow.
New American Standard Bible
They
King James Version
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Holman Bible
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked 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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:57
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and kept not His testimonies; 57 but they turned back, and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceiving bow. 58 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
Cross References
Hosea 7:16
They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a deceitful bow; their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of their tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:27-28
Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in that they have committed a sin against Me.
Judges 3:5-7
And the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.
Judges 3:12
And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah made Eglon the king of Moab strong against Israel because they had done evil in the sight of Jehovah.
Psalm 78:8
and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.
Psalm 78:10-37
They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His Law.
Psalm 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and pained the Holy One of Israel.