Psalms 78:57

They drew back, false like their ancestors; they failed like a treacherous bow.

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

In Context

56Yet they tempted and angered the Most High God, they did not observe his decrees.

58Their shrines stirred him to anger, their idols moved him to jealousy.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:8and not be like their ancestors, a generation defiant and stubborn, a generation with heart unsteady, and spirit unfaithful towards God.

Psalms 78:41tempting God again and again, provoking the Holy One of Israel.

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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