Psalms 78:57

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

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  • Hos 7:16 : 16 They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.
  • Ezek 20:27-28 : 27 For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me. 28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.
  • Judg 3:5-7 : 5 Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods. 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.
  • Judg 3:12 : 12 Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
  • Ps 78:10-37 : 10 They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law; 11 They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see. 12 He did great works before the eyes of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan. 13 The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that. 14 In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire. 15 The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters. 16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers. 17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land; 18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire. 19 They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land? 20 See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people? 21 So these things came to the Lord's ears, and he was angry; and a fire was lighted against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel; 22 Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation. 23 And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open; 24 And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven. 25 Man took part in the food of strong ones; he sent them meat in full measure. 26 He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power. 27 He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea, 28 And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents. 29 So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire; 30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths, 31 The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel. 32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders. 33 So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble. 34 When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care; 35 In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour. 36 But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him; 37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:8-11
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    8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

    9 The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

    10 They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

    11 They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

  • Ps 78:56
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    56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

  • Hos 7:16
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    16 They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.

  • Ps 78:36-37
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    75%

    36 But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

    37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    74%

    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

    17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

  • Ps 78:58
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    58 They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

  • Job 34:27
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    27 Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

  • Hos 6:7
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    7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
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    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

    15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

  • Judg 2:12
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    12 And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    72%

    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

  • Jer 8:5
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    5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
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    40 But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5 They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

  • Acts 7:39
    70%

    39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Judg 2:19
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    19 But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.

  • Jer 7:26
    70%

    26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

  • Ps 78:40-41
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    40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

    41 Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

  • Hos 11:7
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    7 My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Jer 5:23
    69%

    23 But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

  • Isa 31:6
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    6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

  • Hos 5:7
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    7 They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.

  • Jer 3:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

    11 And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.

  • Ps 78:17
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    17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

  • Ps 44:18
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    18 Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

  • Jer 5:7
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    7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

  • Exod 32:8
    68%

    8 Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 5:25
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    25 And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

  • Jer 5:11
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    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Num 32:15
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    15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • Ps 106:39
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    39 So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

  • Jer 9:14
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    14 But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.