Psalm 78:9 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

The men of Ephraim, well-equipped with bows and arrows, turned and ran on the day of battle.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

ASV:

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

BBE:

The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

DBY:

The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

ERV:

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

JPS:

The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle.

WBS:

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

WEB:

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

YLT:

Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

Psalm 78:9 Cross References

XREF:

Judges 20:39 Then the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel, for they said, "Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle."

1 Chronicles 12:2 They were equipped with bows, using both the right hand and the left to sling stones and to shoot arrows from the bow; they were Saul's kinsmen from Benjamin.

Psalm 78:57 But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; They turned aside like a treacherous bow. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

78:9 The children of {h} Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
(h) By Ephraim he means also the rest of the tribes, because they were most in number: whose punishment declares that they were unfaithful to God, and by their multitude and authority had corrupted all others.

WES:

78:9 Ephraim - That Ephraim is here put for all Israel seems evident from the following verse s, wherein the sins, upon which this overthrow is charged, are manifestly the sins of all the children of Israel, and they who are here called Ephraim are called Jacob and Israel, ver.21, and this passage may refer to that dreadful overthrow related, 1Sam 4:10,11, which is particularly named, because as the ark, so the flight was in that tribe. And the psalmist having related this amazing providence, falls into a large discourse of the causes of it, namely, the manifold sins of that and the former generations, which having prosecuted from hence to ver.60, he there returns to this history, and relates the sad consequence of that disaster, the captivity of the ark, and God's forsaking of Shiloh and Ephraim, and removing thence to the tribe of Judah and mount Zion. Bows - These are put for all arms.

MHC:

78:9-39. Sin dispirits men, and takes away the heart. Forgetfulness of God's works is the cause of disobedience to his laws. This narrative relates a struggle between God's goodness and man's badness. The Lord hears all our murmurings and distrusts, and is much displeased. Those that will not believe the power of God's mercy, shall feel the fire of his indignation. Those cannot be said to trust in God's salvation as their happiness at last, who can not trust his providence in the way to it. To all that by faith and prayer, ask, seek, and knock, these doors of heaven shall at any time be opened; and our distrust of God is a great aggravation of our sins. He expressed his resentment of their provocation; not in denying what they sinfully lusted after, but in granting it to them. Lust is contented with nothing. Those that indulge their lust, will never be estranged from it. Those hearts are hard indeed, that will neither be melted by the mercies of the Lord, nor broken by his judgments. Those that sin still, must expect to be in trouble still. And the reason why we live with so little comfort, and to so little purpose, is, because we do not live by faith. Under these rebukes they professed repentance, but they were not sincere, for they were not constant. In Israel's history we have a picture of our own hearts and lives. God's patience, and warnings, and mercies, imbolden them to harden their hearts against his word. And the history of kingdoms is much the same. Judgments and mercies have been little attended to, until the measure of their sins has been full. And higher advantages have not kept churches from declining from the commandments of God. Even true believers recollect, that for many a year they abused the kindness of Providence. When they come to heaven, how will they admire the Lord's patience and mercy in bringing them to his kingdom!

CONC:

Archers Armed Battle Bearers Bow Bowmen Bows Carrying Conflict Ephraim E'phraimites Equipped Fight Handling Sons Though Yet

Archers Armed Battle Bearers Bow Bowmen Bows Carrying Children Conflict Ephraim E'phraimites Equipped Fight Handling Turned

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