62. He also handed his people over to the sword, and he was very angry with his inheritance.
63. Fire devoured his young men, and his young women were not praised.
64. His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep.
65. Then the Lord awoke like one who had been asleep, awoke like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.
66. And he beat back his enemies; he gave them over to perpetual scorn.
67. And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not chose the tribe of Ephraim,
68. but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion that he loved.
69. And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
70. And he chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.
71. He brought him from following nursing ewes to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
72. And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.