Psalms 78:58-70

⁵⁸And they provoked him to anger with their high-places, and with their graven images they moved him to jealousy.

⁵⁹God heard this, and he became wroth, and felt greatly disgusted with Israel;

⁶⁰And he cast off the dwelling at Shiloh, the tabernacle where he had dwelt among men;

⁶¹And he gave up his strength unto captivity, and his glory into the adversary's hand.

⁶²And he surrendered his people unto the sword; and with his inheritance was he wroth.

⁶³His young men the fire devoured; and his virgins were not demanded in marriage.

⁶⁴His priests fell by the sword; and his widows did not weep.

⁶⁵Then awoke the Lord as one that sleepeth, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

⁶⁶And he smote his enemies backward: a perpetual disgrace on them.

⁶⁷Yet was he disgusted with the tent of Joseph, and of the tribe of Ephraim he made not choice;

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

⁶⁹And he built like high mountains his sanctuary, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

⁷⁰And he made choice of David his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: