^{56 Ref} Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

^{57 Ref} But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

^{58 Ref} For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

^{59 Ref} When God heard `this', he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

^{60 Ref} So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;

^{61 Ref} And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand.

^{62 Ref} He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.

^{63 Ref} Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

^{64 Ref} Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.

^{65 Ref} Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

^{66 Ref} And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.

^{67 Ref} Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

^{68 Ref} But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.

^{69 Ref} And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

^{70 Ref} He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:

^{71 Ref} From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

^{72 Ref} So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. Psalm 79 A Psalm of Asaph.