Psalms 78:57

“But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.”

"But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow." - Psalms 78:57
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What does Psalms 78:57 mean?

Psalms 78:57 in the King James Version of the Bible reads, "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow." This verse comes from a longer psalm that was written as a reminder to the people of Israel to remember and learn…

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The Deceitful Bow: A Call to Faithfulness

In Psalm 78:57, the psalmist reflects on the troubling reality of human behavior in relation to God: "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow." This verse encapsulates a vital lesson about the consequences of…

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A Prayer for Faithfulness and Redemption

Heavenly Father, I come before You today, humbly acknowledging Your greatness, Your mercy, and the infinite wisdom found in Your Word. As I meditate on the words of Psalms 78:57, "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful…

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Psalms 78:57 - "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow."
Psalms 57:5 - "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth."
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."
"And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer." - Psalms 78:35
"They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;" - Psalms 78:10
"Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble." - Psalms 78:33
Psalms 78:18 - "And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust."
Psalms 78:35 - "And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer."
Psalms 78:47 - "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost."
Psalms 78:10 - "They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;"
Psalms 78:64 - "Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation."
Psalms 78:22 - "Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:"
"He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts." - Psalms 78:48
"They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths," - Psalms 78:30
Psalms 78:61 - "And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand."
Psalms 78:67 - "Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:"
"And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness." - Psalms 78:17
"When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:" - Psalms 78:59
Psalms 78:44 - "And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink."
Psalms 78:32 - "For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works."
Psalms 57:10 - "For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds."
Psalms 78:41 - "Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel."
Psalms 78:17 - "And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness."
Psalms 78:36 - "Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues."
Psalms 78:28 - "And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations."
Psalms 78:59 - "When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:"
Psalms 78:63 - "The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage."
Psalms 78:51 - "And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:"
Psalms 78:37 - "For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant."