Psalms 78:56-70

⁵⁶Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;

⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.

⁵⁹God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel;

⁶⁰And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;

⁶¹And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand.

⁶²He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance.

⁶³Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.

⁶⁶And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

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

⁶⁹And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever.

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