Part 45

19:078:057 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

19:078:058 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

19:078:059 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

19:078:060 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

19:078:061 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

19:078:062 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

19:078:063 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

19:078:064 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

19:078:065 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

19:078:066 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

19:078:067 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

19:078:068 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

19:078:069 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

19:078:070 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

19:078:071 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

19:078:072 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

19:079:001 O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

19:079:002 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

19:079:003 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

19:079:004 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

19:079:005 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

19:079:006 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

19:079:007 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

19:079:008 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

19:079:009 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

19:079:010 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

19:079:011 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

19:079:012 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.