50He cleared a path for his anger, did not spare them from death, but gave them over to pestilence.
51He struck down all the first-born in Egypt, the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52He led forth his people like sheep, he was guide to his flock in the desert.
53Securely he led them, and free from fear, while their foes were drowned in the sea.
54To his holy realm he brought them, to the mountain his right hand had purchased.
55He drove out the nations before them, and allotted their land for possession, and their tents for Israel to live in.
56Yet they tempted and angered the Most High God, they did not observe his decrees.
57They drew back, false like their ancestors; they failed like a treacherous bow.
58Their shrines stirred him to anger, their idols moved him to jealousy.
59When God heard of this, he was furious, and he spurned Israel utterly.
60He abandoned his home in Shiloh, the tent he had pitched amongst people.
61He gave his strength up to captivity, his glory to the hands of the foe.
62He gave his people to the sword, he was furious with his own.
63Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage-song.
64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.
65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior flushed with wine;
66and he beat back his foes, putting them to perpetual scorn.
67He disowned the tent of Joseph, he rejected the tribe of Ephraim;
68but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
69And he built like the heights his sanctuary, like the earth which he founded forever.
70And he chose David his servant, taking him from the sheepfolds.
71From the mother-ewes he brought him, to be shepherd to Jacob his people, and to Israel his inheritance.