51. And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
52. And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
53. And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.
54. And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;
55. And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56. But they tempted and provoked God the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
57. And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
58. And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59. God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60. And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,
61. And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;
62. And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:
63. The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song;
64. Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
65. Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
66. And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.
67. And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,