Psalms 78:56-72
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56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
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57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
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58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
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59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
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61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
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62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
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63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
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64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
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66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
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67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
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69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
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70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
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71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
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72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.