Psalms 78:52-72 ▼

52 And His people He made go forth like sheep, and He guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

53 And He led them to safety, and they did not dread, and the sea covered their enemies.

54 And He brought them to the border of His holiness, this mountain His right hand had acquired.

55 And He drove out the nations before their face, and caused them to fall in the line of inheritance, and the tribes of Israel He settled in their tents.

56 And they tested and provoked El-Elyon, and His testimonies they did not keep.

57 And they turned back and were treacherous like their fathers; they were turned like a bow of deceit.

58 And they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and with their carved images they made Him jealous.

59 God heard and boiled over, and exceedingly He rejected Israel;

60 and He left behind the dwelling place of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men,

61 and He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

62 And He delivered up His people to the sword, and on His inheritance He boiled over.

63 Fire consumed His young men, and His virgins have not been praised.

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

65 And the Lord awoke as a sleeper, as a mighty one overcome by wine.

66 And He beat his adversaries back; a reproach forever He gave to them.

67 And He rejected the tent of Joseph, and the tribe of Ephraim He would not choose.

68 And He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights; like the earth He founded it forever.

70 And He chose David His servant, and He took him from the folds of his flock;

71 He brought him from tending the ewes to be shepherd of Jacob His people, and of Israel His inheritance.

72 And he tended them with the integrity of his heart, and by the skillfulness of his hands he guided them.