Psalms / Tehillim 78:56 Yet they tried and rebelled Against the Most High Elohim, And did not guard His witnesses,
Psa 78:57 But they turned back And acted treacherously like their fathers; They twisted like a treacherous bow.
Psa 78:58 For they enraged Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
Psa 78:59 When Elohim heard this, He was wroth, And greatly despised Yisra’ĕl,
Psa 78:60 And He left the Dwelling Place of Shiloh, The Tent which He had set up among men.
Psa 78:61 And He gave His strength1 into captivity, And His comeliness1 into the hand of the adversary. Footnote: 1“Strength” and “comeliness” are used as symbolic names for His Ark. See also Ps. 63:2, Ps. 132:8, and 2 Chr. 6:41.
Psa 78:62 And He gave His people over to the sword, And He was wroth with His inheritance.
Psa 78:63 His young men were consumed by fire, And His maidens were not praised.
Psa 78:64 His priests fell by the sword, And their widows could not weep.
Psa 78:65 Then יהוה awoke as one asleep, As a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
Psa 78:66 And He smote His adversaries backward, He put them to an everlasting reproach.
Psa 78:67 Then He rejected the tent of Yosĕph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephrayim,
Psa 78:68 But chose the tribe of Yehuḏah, Mount Tsiyon, which He loved.
Psa 78:69 And He built His set-apart place like the heights, Like the earth He founded it forever.
Psa 78:70 And He chose Dawiḏ His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;
Psa 78:71 He brought him in from tending the ewes, To shepherd Yaʽaqoḇ His people, And Yisra’ĕl His inheritance.
Psa 78:72 And he shepherded them According to the integrity of his heart, And led them by the skill of his hands.