Psalms 78:54-71

⁵⁴And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.

⁵⁵He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

⁵⁶Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

⁵⁷But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

⁵⁸And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

⁵⁹God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

⁶⁰So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,

⁶¹And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.

⁶²And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.

⁶³The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.

⁶⁴Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.

⁶⁵But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,

⁶⁶And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.

⁶⁷Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.

⁶⁹And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.

⁷⁰He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.

⁷¹Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.