John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 78:57

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But turned back, etc.] From God and his worship, apostatized from the true religion, and turned to idols: and dealt unfaithfully, like their fathers; in the wilderness; (see <197808>Psalm 78:8,36,37), they were turned aside like a deceitful bow; that promises well to carry the arrow right, but drops it at the feet of the archer; or carries it another way, so that it misses the mark, The Targum is, “as a bow casting arrows;” to the ground, and not to the mark; (see <280716>Hosea 7:16), or being too much stretched is suddenly broken, and kills the archer; or returns to its own nature; so Arama.

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