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And allotted them as a marked out inheritance, And settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

56 Nevertheless they tempted and provoked Elohim the Most

High, And His testimonies they kept not.

57 They turned back and fell away like their fathers, They turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58 They incensed Him by their high places, And by their idols they excited His jealousy.

59 Elohim heard and was wroth,

And became greatly wearied with Israel.

60 Then He cast off the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which He had pitched among men ;

61 He gave His might into captivity,

And His glory into the oppressor's hand.

62 He gave over His people to the sword, And was wroth concerning His inheritance.

63 Their young men fire devoured,

And for their maidens they sang no bridal song.

64 Their priests, by the sword they fell, And their widows could not mourn.

65 Then the Lord awaked as one sleeping, As a hero, shouting from wine,

66 And smote their oppressors behind, Eternal reproach did He put upon them —

67 And He despised the tent of Joseph, And the tribe of Ephraim He chose not.

68 He chose the tribe of Judah,

The mount Zion, which He hath loved.

69 And He built, as the heights of heaven, His sanctuary, Like the earth which He hath founded for ever.

70 And He chose David His servant, And took him from the sheep-folds ;

71 Following the ewes that gave suck He took him away To pasture Jacob His people,

And Israel His inheri