Psalms 78:57

Like their fathers they were faithless, and turned back; They turned aside, like a deceitful bow.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

56Yet they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, And kept not his statutes;

58They provoked his anger by their high places, And stirred up his jealousy by their graven images.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:8And might not be, like their forefathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation,—A generation whose heart was not fixed upon God, And whose spirit was not steadfast toward the Almighty.

Psalms 78:41Again and again they tempted God, And offended the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:27Therefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Yet in this your fathers dishonored me, and trespassed 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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