Psalms 78:57 · KJV
“But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.”
— Psalms 78:57
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 78 — Context
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59When God heard {this}, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Cross References
Hosea 7:16
They return, {but} not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this {shall be} their derision in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:27-28
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. {committed...: Heb. trespassed a trespass}
Psalms 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation {that} set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}
Judges 3:5-7
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Psalms 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Judges 3:12
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
Psalms 78:10-37
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;