Psalms 78:57

For they provoked him to anger with their high places,.... Which they built to Baal, and other Heathen dieties:

and moved him to jealousy with their graven images; which they worshipped, see Jdg…

But turned back ... - See the notes at Psa 78:41. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow - literally, a bow of deceit. That is, a bow that could not be depended on; a bow, one of whose arms was…

The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…

unfaithfully Or, as R.V., treacherously. Cp. Hos 5:7; Hos 6:7. like a deceitful bow Which misses the mark and disappoints its owner. Cp. Hos 7:16.