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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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Psa. 78:41• 41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. (Psa. 78:41)
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Judg. 3:5‑7,12• 5And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
 6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
 7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
 12And 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. (Judg. 3:5‑7,12)
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Ezek. 20:27‑28• 27Therefore, 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.
 28For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings. (Ezek. 20:27‑28)
they were.
Psa. 78:8,10‑37• 8And 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.
 10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
 11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them.
 12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
 13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
 14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
 15He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
 16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
 17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
 18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
 19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
 20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
 21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
 22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
 23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
 24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
 25Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
 26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
 27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
 28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
 29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
 30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
 31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
 32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
 33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
 34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
 35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
 36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
 37For their heart was not right with 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.