Ps 78:58 For they provoked Him with their high places And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.
Ps 78:59 When God heard, He was filled with wrath And greatly abhorred Israel;
Ps 78:60 So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, The tent which He had pitched among men,
Ps 78:61 And gave up His strength to captivity And His glory into the hand of the adversary.
Ps 78:62 He also delivered His people to the sword, And was filled with wrath at His inheritance.
Ps 78:63 Fire devoured His young men, And His virgins had no wedding songs.
Ps 78:64 His priests fell by the sword, And His widows could not weep.
Ps 78:65 ¶ Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a warrior overcome by wine.
Ps 78:66 He drove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting reproach.
Ps 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.
Ps 78:69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has founded forever.
Ps 78:70 He also chose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;
Ps 78:71 From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.
Ps 78:72 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands. Help.
Ps 79:1 O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance; They have defiled Your holy temple; They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 79:2 They have given the dead bodies of Your servants for food to the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.
Ps 79:3 They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem; And there was no one to bury them.
Ps 79:4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those around us.
Ps 79:5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
Ps 79:6 Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You, And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.