Psalms 78:56-71

56But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep his decrees.

57They treacherously turned away like their ancestors; they became warped like a faulty bow.

58They enraged him with their high places and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.

59God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel.

60He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he resided among mankind.

61He gave up his strength to captivity and his splendor to the hand of a foe.

62He surrendered his people to the sword because he was enraged with his heritage.

63Fire consumed his chosen young men, and his young women had no wedding songs.

64His priests fell by the sword, and the widows could not lament.

65The Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine.

66He beat back his foes; he gave them lasting disgrace.

67He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

68He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.

69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

70He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;

71he brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over his people Jacob — over Israel, his inheritance.