56. Yet they tempted and provoked and rebelled against the Most High God and kept not His testimonies.
57. But they turned back and dealt unfaithfully and treacherously like their fathers; they were twisted like a warped and deceitful bow [that will not respond to the archer's aim].
58. For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [for idol worship] and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.
59. When God heard this, He was full of [holy] wrath; and He utterly rejected Israel, greatly abhorring and loathing [her ways],
60. So that He forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent in which He had dwelt among men [and never returned to it again],
61. And delivered His strength and power (the ark of the covenant) into captivity, and His glory into the hands of the foe (the Philistines). [I Sam. 4:21.]
62. He gave His people over also to the sword and was wroth with His heritage [Israel]. [I Sam. 4:10.]
63. The fire [of war] devoured their young men, and their bereaved virgins were not praised in a wedding song.