Psalms 78:57 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Psalms 78:57 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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. …
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.
Psalms 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:10-37
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 40-72)

The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for their sins, and yet how, in judgment, he remembered mercy at last. Let not those that receive mercy from God be thereby emboldened to sin, for the mercies they receive will aggravate their sin and hast…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 57)

56-57. a deceitful bow--which turns back, and so fails to project the arrow (2Sa 1:22; Ho 7:16). They relapsed.