New American Standard Bible

Psalms 78:61-67 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

61. And gave up His strength to captivity And His glory into the hand of the adversary.

62. He also delivered His people to the sword, And was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

63. Fire devoured His young men, And His virgins had no wedding songs.

64. His priests fell by the sword, And His widows could not weep.

65. Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a warrior overcome by wine.

66. He drove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting reproach.

67. He also rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,