9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.


In Context

6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

7 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

8 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10 They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

Psalm 78:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

78:9The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

78:9The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

78:9The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

78:9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:9The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

78:9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

78:9Sons of Ephraim — armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

78:9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.