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But He made His own people go forth like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
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And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain which His right hand had acquired.
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He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
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Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, And did not keep His testimonies,
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But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
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For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
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When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,
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So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,
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And delivered His strength into captivity, And His glory into the enemy's hand.
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He also gave His people over to the sword, And was furious with His inheritance.
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The fire consumed their young men, And their maidens were not given in marriage.
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Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation.
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Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
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And He beat back His enemies; He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.
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And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has established forever.
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He also chose David His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;
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From following the ewes that had young He brought him, To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance.
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So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.