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Rh :But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
 * And He brought them to His holy border,
 * To the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.
 * He 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.


 * Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High,
 * And kept not His testimonies;
 * But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers;
 * They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
 * For they provoked Him with their high places,
 * And moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.
 * God heard, and was wroth,
 * And He greatly abhorred Israel;
 * And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
 * The tent which He had made to dwell among men;
 * And delivered His strength into captivity,
 * And His glory into the adversary's hand.
 * He gave His people over also unto the sword;
 * And was wroth with His inheritance.
 * Fire devoured their young men;
 * And their virgins had no marriage-song.
 * Their priests fell by the sword;
 * And their widows made no lamentation.


 * Then the Lord awaked as one asleep,
 * Like a mighty man recovering from wine.
 * And He smote His adversaries backward;
 * He put upon them a perpetual reproach.
 * Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph,
 * And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
 * But chose the tribe of Judah,
 * The mount Zion which He loved.
 * And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
 * Like the earth which He hath founded for ever.
 * He chose David also His servant,
 * And took him from the sheepfolds;
 * From following the ewes that give suck He brought him,
 * To be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.
 * So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart;
 * And lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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.
 * They 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.
 * They have shed their blood like water
 * Round about Jerusalem, with none to bury them.
 * We are become a taunt to our neighbours,
 * A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.


 * How long, O, wilt Thou be angry for ever?