King James Version (KJV)
Psalms 78:57
“But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.”
Verse in context — 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.
56
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59
When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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