63. Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
64. Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
65. Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66. And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67. Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68. But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
69. And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70. He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:
71. From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72. So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.