Apr 17, 2019
56 But they put
God to the test
and rebelled against the Most
High;
they did not keep his statutes.
57 Like their ancestors they were
disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 They angered him with their high
places;
they aroused his jealousy with their
idols.
59 When God heard them, he was
furious;
he rejected
Israel completely.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of
Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among
humans.
61 He sent the ark of his might into
captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the
enemy.
62 He gave his people over to the
sword;
he was furious with his
inheritance.
63 Fire consumed their young
men,
and their young women had no wedding
songs;
64 their priests were put to the
sword,
and their widows could not weep.
65 Then the Lord
awoke as from sleep,
as a warrior wakes from the stupor of
wine.
66 He beat back his enemies;
he put them to everlasting shame.
67 Then he rejected the tents of
Joseph,
he did not choose the tribe of
Ephraim;
68 but he chose the tribe of
Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 He built his sanctuary like the
heights,
like the earth that he established
forever.
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
71 from tending the sheep he brought
him
to be the shepherd of his people
Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.
72 And David shepherded them with integrity
of heart;
with skillful hands he led them.