Psalms 78:56-71

56Yet they tested and rebelled against El Elyon, and did not keep His decrees.

57Like their fathers they turned and were treacherous. They turned aside like a faulty bow.

58For they provoked Him with their high places, so they aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

59God heard and was furious, and He greatly detested Israel.

60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He pitched among men.

61He gave up His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary’s hand.

62He gave His people over to the sword, when He was angry at His inheritance.

63Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins had no wedding songs.

64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior shaking off wine.

66He beat back His foes, putting them to lasting scorn.

67Then He detested Joseph’s tent and chose not the tribe of Ephraim.

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

69He built His Sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that He established forever.

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

71from following nursing ewes. He brought him to shepherd Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.