Psalms 78:62-72

⁶²He handed his people over to the sword, and he was angry with his heritage.

⁶³Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs.

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awakened as one from sleep, like a warrior who shouts because of wine.

⁶⁶He drove his adversaries back; he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷He rejected the tent of Joseph, and he did not chose the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁸He chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion that he loved.

⁶⁹He built his sanctuary like the heavens, like the earth that he has established forever.

⁷⁰He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.

⁷¹He took him from following the ewes with their young, and he brought him to be shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his heritage.

⁷²David shepherded them with the integrity of his heart, and he guided them with the skill of his hands.