King James Version
Psalms 78:57 in the King James Version says “But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 78 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.”
Psalms 78:57 · KJV
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.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully 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 graven images.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“But turned back”
H5472properly, to flinch, i.e., (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)
“and dealt unfaithfully”
H898to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
“like their fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“they were turned aside”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
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