Psalms 78:57

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

56But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

58They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

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Cross References

Judges 3:5Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

Psalms 78:8And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

Psalms 78:41Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:27For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72

Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →

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