Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

References

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Context Readings

Lessons From Israel's Past

56 And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept. 57 And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow, 58 And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

Cross References

Hosea 7:16

They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This is their derision in the land of Egypt!

Ezekiel 20:27-28

Therefore, speak unto the house of Israel, son of man, and thou hast said unto them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Still in this have your fathers reviled Me, In their committing against Me a trespass.

Judges 3:5-7

And the sons of Israel have dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,

Judges 3:12

and the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah; and Jehovah strengtheneth Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because that they have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

Psalm 78:8

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

Psalm 78:10-37

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

Psalm 78:41

Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

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