Psalms 78:50-70

⁵⁰He made a way to the path of his ire, and he spared not from the death of their lives; and he enclosed alto-gether in death the beasts of them.

⁵¹And he smote all the first engen-dered things or first begotten in the land of Egypt; the first fruits of all the travail of them in the tabernacles of Ham.

⁵²And he took away his people as sheep; and he led them forth as a flock in desert.

⁵³And he led them forth in hope, and they dreaded not; and the sea covered the enemies of them.

⁵⁴And he brought them into the hill of his hallowing; into the hill which his right hand gat.

⁵⁵And he casted out heathen men from the face of them; and by lot he parted to them the land in a cord of dealing. And he made the lineages of Israel to dwell in the tabernacles of them.

⁵⁶And they tempted, and wrathed the high God; and they kept not his witnessings.

⁵⁷And they turned away themselves, and they kept not covenant; as their fathers they were turned into a shrewd bow.

⁵⁸They stirred him into ire in their little hills; and they stirred him to indignation in their graven images.

⁵⁹God heard, and forsook; and brought to nought Israel greatly.

⁶⁰And he putted or put away the tabernacle of Shiloh; his tabernacle in which he dwelled among men.

⁶¹And he betook the virtue of them into captivity; and the fairness of them into the hands of the enemy.

⁶²And he enclosed altogether his people in sword; and he despised his heritage.

⁶³Fire ate the young men of them; and the virgins of them were not bewailed or bewept.

⁶⁴The priests of them fell down by sword; and the widows of them were not bewept.

⁶⁵And the Lord was raised, as sleeping; as mighty greatly filled or drunk of wine.

⁶⁶And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts; he gave to them ever-lasting shame.

⁶⁷And he putted or put away the tabernacle of Joseph; and he chose not the lineage of Ephraim.

⁶⁸But he chose the lineage of Judah; he chose the hill of Zion, which he loved.

⁶⁹And he as an unicorn builded his holy place; in the land, which he founded into worlds.

⁷⁰And he chose David his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep;