A moment in scripture
Psalms 78:57
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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 78:55
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Psalms 78:56
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
- Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
- Psalms 78:59
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.