Psalms 78:57

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They turned back and were disloyal like their ancestors; they became twisted like a deceitful bow.

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  • Hos 7:16 : 16 They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 20:27-28 : 27 Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Yet in this, your fathers blasphemed me by acting treacherously against me.' 28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there.
  • Judg 3:5-7 : 5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 6 They took the daughters of these peoples as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to the sons of these peoples, and worshiped their gods. 7 The Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
  • Judg 3:12 : 12 The Israelites again did evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord gave strength to Eglon, king of Moab, to overpower Israel because they had done evil in the Lord's sight.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.
  • Ps 78:10-37 : 10 They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by His teachings. 11 They forgot His deeds and the wonders He had shown them. 12 He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it; He made the waters stand like a wall. 14 By day He led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. 15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the depths. 16 He brought streams out of the rock and made water flow down like rivers. 17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling against the Most High in the dry wasteland. 18 They tested God in their hearts by demanding the food they craved. 19 They spoke against God, saying, 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?' 20 True, He struck the rock, and water gushed out, and streams overflowed. But can He also give us bread or provide meat for His people? 21 Therefore, when the Lord heard this, He became furious; a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger rose against Israel. 22 For they did not believe in God or trust in His salvation. 23 Yet He commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven. 24 He rained down manna for them to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. 25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food to their fill. 26 He made the east wind blow in the heavens and guided the south wind by His power. 27 He rained meat on them like dust, birds like the sand of the sea. 28 He made them fall inside their camp, all around their dwellings. 29 They ate and were filled abundantly, for He gave them what they craved. 30 But while the food was still in their mouths, they were not yet free of their craving. 31 Then the anger of God rose against them, and He killed the strongest among them, striking down the young men of Israel. 32 Despite all this, they kept on sinning and did not believe in His wondrous works. 33 So He ended their days in futility and their years in terror. 34 When He killed them, they sought Him; they repented and earnestly sought God. 35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their Redeemer. 36 But they deceived Him with their mouths and lied to Him with their tongues. 37 Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant.
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 Again and again they tested God and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:8-11
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    8 They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.

    9 The sons of Ephraim, armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle.

    10 They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by His teachings.

    11 They forgot His deeds and the wonders He had shown them.

  • Ps 78:56
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    56 But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep His decrees.

  • Hos 7:16
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    16 They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 78:36-37
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    36 But they deceived Him with their mouths and lied to Him with their tongues.

    37 Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16 But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments.

    17 They refused to listen and did not remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, and You did not abandon them.

  • Ps 78:58
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    58 They angered Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

  • Job 34:27
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    27 Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10 They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6 For our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their backs on His dwelling place, and walked away.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

  • Hos 6:7
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    7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they dealt treacherously with Me.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
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    14 But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.

    15 They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.

  • Judg 2:12
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    12 They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12 Though they plot evil against You and devise wicked schemes, they will not succeed.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7 Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

  • Jer 8:5
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    5 Why then has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold tightly to deceit; they refuse to return.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3 Beware of your neighbor; do not trust even a brother. Every brother utterly deceives, and every friend spreads slander.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
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    40 But they would not listen. Instead, they continued to act according to their former customs.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5 They have acted corruptly toward Him; they are not His children because of their defect—a crooked and perverse generation.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39 But our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

  • Judg 2:19
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    19 But when the judge died, they returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and bowing down to them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

  • Jer 7:26
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    26 But they did not listen to me or incline their ear; instead, they stiffened their necks and did worse than their ancestors.

  • Ps 78:40-41
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    40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!

    41 Again and again they tested God and limited the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jer 7:24
    70%

    24 But they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, they walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts. They went backward, not forward.

  • Hos 11:7
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    7 My people are determined to turn from Me. Even though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them together.

  • Jer 3:20
    70%

    20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 5:23
    69%

    23 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

  • Isa 31:6
    69%

    6 Return to the One you have so deeply rebelled against, O sons of Israel.

  • Hos 5:7
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    7 They have been unfaithful to the Lord; they have had illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them along with their fields.

  • Jer 3:10-11
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    10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense, declares the LORD.

    11 The LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah."

  • Ps 78:17
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    17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling against the Most High in the dry wasteland.

  • Ps 44:18
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    18 All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we been false to Your covenant.

  • Jer 5:7
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    7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Exod 32:8
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    8 They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'

  • 1 Chr 5:25
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    25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and followed the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32 Despite all this, they kept on sinning and did not believe in His wondrous works.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 See how the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

  • Jer 5:11
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    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

  • Num 32:15
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    15 If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."

  • Ps 106:39
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    39 They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

  • Jer 9:14
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    14 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I will feed this people with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink.'