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Psalm 78

Psa. 78:57 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But turned back
cuwg (Hebrew #5472)
properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)
KJV usage: backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).
Pronounce: soog
Origin: a primitive root
, and dealt unfaithfully
bagad (Hebrew #898)
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
KJV usage: deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), X very.
Pronounce: baw-gad'
Origin: a primitive root
like their fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
: they were turned aside
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
like a deceitful
rmiyah (Hebrew #7423)
remissness, treachery
KJV usage: deceit(- ful, -fully), false, guile, idle, slack, slothful.
Pronounce: rem-ee-yaw'
Origin: from 7411
bow
qesheth (Hebrew #7198)
from 7185 in the original sense (of 6983) of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
KJV usage: X arch(-er), + arrow, bow((-man, -shot)).
Pronounce: keh'-sheth
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But.
they were.
Psa. 78:8,10‑37• 8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with *God.
10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
12In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
13He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;
14And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
15He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
16And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
18And they tempted *God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
19And they spoke against God: they said, Is *God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
22Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
25Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
26He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
27And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:
29And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
30They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
31When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;
33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
34When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after *God;
35And they remembered that God was their rock, and *God, the Most High, their redeemer.
36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;
37For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
(Psa. 78:8,10‑37)
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Hos. 7:16• 16They 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. (Hos. 7:16)

J. N. Darby Translation

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