55. And he caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
56. Yet they tempted and aggravated God Most High, and they did not keep his testaments.
57. And they turned themselves aside, and they did not serve the covenant. In the same manner as their fathers, they were turned backwards, like a crooked bow.
58. They impelled him to anger on their hills, and they provoked him to rivalry with their graven images.
59. God listened, and he spurned them, and he reduced Israel greatly, almost to nothing.
60. And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, his tabernacle where he had dwelt among men.
61. And he delivered their virtue into captivity, and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
62. And he enclosed his people with the sword, and he spurned his inheritance.
63. Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins were not lamented.
64. Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows did not weep.