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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.