57And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.


In Context

54 And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.

55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

56 Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

57 And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

58 They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

59 God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

Psalm 78:57 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

78:57Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

78:57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:57And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

78:57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

78:57And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.