World English Bible
"but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow."
— Psalms 78:57, World English Bible
“But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.”
“But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. ”
“They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.”
“Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.”
“But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.”
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;