58. They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.
59. God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
60. And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
61. And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
62. And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.
63. Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
64. Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.
65. And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.
66. And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.
67. And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68. But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.
69. And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.
70. And he chose his servant David, and took him from the hocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,
71. To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
72. And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.