Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
NIV
But they turned back and dealt unfaithfully and treacherously like their fathers; they were twisted like a warped and deceitful bow [that will not respond to the archer's aim].
AMP
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
KJV
"True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly, but can he also give us bread? Can he supply meat for his people?"
NIV
Behold, He did smite the rock so that waters gushed out and the streams overflowed; but can He give bread also? Can He provide flesh for His people?
AMP
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
KJV
Charge them with crime upon crime; do not let them share in your salvation.
NIV
Let one [unforgiven] perverseness and iniquity accumulate upon another for them [in Your book], and let them not come into Your righteousness or be justified and acquitted by You.
AMP
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
KJV
Consume them in wrath, consume them till they are no more. Then it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob.
NIV
Consume them in wrath, consume them so that they shall be no more; and let them know unto the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob (Israel). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
AMP
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
KJV