55 (A)He also drove out the nations before them,
(B)Allotted them an inheritance by [a]survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

56 (C)Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God,
And did not keep His testimonies,
57 But (D)turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were turned aside (E)like a deceitful bow.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 78:55 surveyed measurement, lit. measuring cord

55 He drove out nations(A) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;(B)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

56 But they put God to the test
    and rebelled against the Most High;
    they did not keep his statutes.
57 Like their ancestors(C) they were disloyal and faithless,
    as unreliable as a faulty bow.(D)

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