PSALMS 78:64-72

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

⁶⁵Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

⁶⁶And he smote his adversaries backward: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷Moreover he refused 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 established for ever.

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

⁷¹From following the ewes that give suck he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

⁷²So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.