Psalm 78:56–66

⁵⁶But they put God to the test.

They refused to obey the Most High God.

They didn’t keep his laws.

⁵⁷Like their people who lived before them,

they turned away from him and were not faithful.

They were like a bow that doesn’t shoot straight.

They couldn’t be trusted.

⁵⁸They made God angry by going to their high places.

They made him jealous by worshiping the statues of their gods.

⁵⁹When God saw what the people were doing, he was very angry.

He turned away from them completely.

⁶⁰He deserted the holy tent at Shiloh.

He left the tent he had set up among his people.

⁶¹He allowed the ark to be captured.

Into the hands of his enemies he sent the ark where his glory rested.

⁶²He let his people be killed with swords.

He was very angry with them.

⁶³Fire destroyed their young men.

Their young women had no one to get married to.

⁶⁴Their priests were killed with swords.

Their widows weren’t able to cry.

⁶⁵Then the Lord woke up as if he had been sleeping.

He was like a man waking up from the deep sleep caused by wine.

⁶⁶He drove his enemies back.

He put them to shame that will last forever.