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⁵⁶ Yet they tested the Most High God,
   and rebelled against him.
   They did not observe his decrees,
⁵⁷ but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;
   they twisted like a treacherous bow.
⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
   they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
⁵⁹ When God heard, he was full of wrath,
   and he utterly rejected Israel.
⁶⁰ He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
   the tent where he dwelt among mortals,
⁶¹ and delivered his power to captivity,
   his glory to the hand of the foe.
⁶² He gave his people to the sword,
   and vented his wrath on his heritage.
⁶³ Fire devoured their young men,
   and their girls had no marriage song.
⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword,
   and their widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
   like a warrior shouting because of wine.
⁶⁶ He put his adversaries to rout;
   he put them to everlasting disgrace.

⁶⁷ He rejected the tent of Joseph,
   he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,
   Mount Zion, which he loves.
⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
   like the earth, which he has founded for ever.
⁷⁰ He chose his servant David,
   and took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
   to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
   of Israel, his inheritance.
⁷² With upright heart he tended them,
   and guided them with skilful hand.