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But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴And He brought them to His holy border,

To the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.

⁵⁵He drove out the nations also before them,

And allotted them for an inheritance by line,

And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

 

⁵⁶Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High,

And kept not His testimonies;

⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers;

They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸For they provoked Him with their high places,

And moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.

⁵⁹God heard, and was wroth,

And He greatly abhorred Israel;

⁶⁰And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,

The tent which He had made to dwell among men;

⁶¹And delivered His strength into captivity,

And His glory into the adversary's hand.

⁶²He gave His people over also unto the sword;

And was wroth with His inheritance.

⁶³Fire devoured their young men;

And their virgins had no marriage-song.

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword;

And their widows made no lamentation.

 

⁶⁵Then the Lord awaked as one asleep,

Like a mighty man recovering from wine.

⁶⁶And He smote His adversaries backward;

He put upon them a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph,

And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah,

The mount Zion which He loved.

⁶⁹And He built His sanctuary like the heights,

Like the earth which He hath founded for ever.

⁷⁰He chose David also His servant,

And took him from the sheepfolds;

⁷¹From following the ewes that give suck He brought him,

To be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

⁷²So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart;

And lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.

79 A Psalm of Asaph.

O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance;

They have defiled Thy holy temple;

They have made Jerusalem into heaps.

²They have given the dead bodies of Thy servants to be food unto the fowls of the heaven,

The flesh of Thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

³They have shed their blood like water

Round about Jerusalem, with none to bury them.

⁴We are become a taunt to our neighbours,

A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

 

⁵How long, O Lord, wilt Thou be angry for ever?

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