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Psalms 78:57

55 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.

56 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.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

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BSB
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
KJV
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
WEB
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
ASV
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
DARBY
And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
BLB
And they turned back and were treacherous like their fathers; they were turned like a bow of deceit.
ÅB
De vek av og var troløse, som deres fedre, de vendte om, slik som en bue som svikter.
OTB
Men vendte tilbake og handlet svikefullt som deres forfedre;
De vendte seg bort som en feilaktig bue.
B1930
De vek av og var troløse, som deres fedre, de vendte om, likesom en bue som svikter.

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  • Hosea 7:16

    They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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  • Ezekiel 20:27–28

    Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

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  • Psalms 78:8

    And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

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  • Judges 3:5–7

    And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

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  • Psalms 78:10–37

    They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

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  • Judges 3:12

    And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

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  • Psalms 78:41

    Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

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