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


In Context

54 Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.

55 He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.

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

58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

59 When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.

Psalms 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

78:57And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked 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.