Psalms 78:56-71

56Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, And did not keep His testimonies,

57But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

59When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

60So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,

61And delivered His strength into captivity, And His glory into the enemy’s hand.

62He also gave His people over to the sword, And was furious with His inheritance.

63The fire consumed their young men, And their maidens were not given in marriage.

64Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation.

65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.

66And He beat back His enemies; He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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

69And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has established forever.

70He also chose David His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

71From following the ewes that had young He brought him, To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.