Psalm 78:57 {77:57}
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And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

but

Psalm 78:41 And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

Judges 3:5-7,12 So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: . . .

Ezekiel 20:27,28 Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers blaspheme me, when they had despised and contemned me; . . .

they were

Psalm 78:8,10-37 That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God. . . .

Hosea 7:16 They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
56Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies. 57And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.58They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.…
Cross References
Psalm 44:17
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.

Psalm 44:18
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.

Psalm 78:9
The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

Psalm 85:8
I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.

Psalm 106:6
We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

Ezekiel 20:27
Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers blaspheme me, when they had despised and contemned me;

Ezekiel 20:28
And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations.

Hosea 7:16
They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

Lexicon
They turned back
וַיִּסֹּ֣גוּ (way·yis·sō·ḡū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5472: To move away, backslide

and were faithless
וַֽ֭יִּבְגְּדוּ (way·yiḇ·gə·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 898: To cover, to act covertly, to pillage

like their fathers,
כַּאֲבוֹתָ֑ם (ka·’ă·ḇō·w·ṯām)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

twisted
נֶ֝הְפְּכ֗וּ (neh·pə·ḵū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

like a faulty
רְמִיָּֽה׃ (rə·mî·yāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7423: Remissness, treachery

bow.
כְּקֶ֣שֶׁת (kə·qe·šeṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7198: A bow, for, shooting, the iris


Additional Translations
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow.

And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

But turned back, and dealt treacherously 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.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,
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