78:55 他在他們面前趕出外邦人，用繩子將外邦的地量給他們為業，叫以色列支派的人住在他們的帳棚裡。
78:56 他們仍舊試探、悖逆至高的上帝，不守他的法度，
78:57 反倒退後，行詭詐，像他們的祖宗一樣；他們改變，如同翻背的弓。
78:58 因他們的邱壇惹了他的怒氣；因他們雕刻的偶像觸動他的憤恨。
78:59 上帝聽見就發怒，極其憎惡以色列人。
78:60 甚至他離棄示羅的帳幕，就是他在人間所搭的帳棚；
78:61 又將他的約櫃（原文是能力）交與人擄去，將他的榮耀交在敵人手中；
78:62 並將他的百姓交與刀劍，向他的產業發怒。
78:63 少年人被火燒滅；處女也無喜歌。
78:64 祭司倒在刀下，寡婦卻不哀哭。
78:65 那時，主像世人睡醒，像勇士飲酒呼喊。
55 He drove out nations
before them
and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56 But they put God to the
test
and rebelled against the Most High;
they did not keep his statutes.
57 Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 They angered him with their high places;
they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard them, he was furious;
he rejected Israel completely.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among humans.
61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 He gave his people over to the sword;
he was furious with his inheritance.
63 Fire consumed their young men,
and their young women had no wedding songs;
64 their priests were put to the sword,
and their widows could not weep.
65 Then the Lord awoke as
from sleep,
as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
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這段記載讓我們想到以利家的事蹟，因為以色列人和非力士人打仗，約櫃被奪，以利的兩個兒子被殺，上帝好像離開以色列一樣！主要是他們有一段很長的時間是在士師統治，在教拜巴力和上帝之間游離，沒有專心一意跟隨上帝，上帝就用這樣的方式來懲戒以色列人。
雖然如此，他們依然沒有好好敬畏上帝。而這一段時間上帝使用外邦人的攻擊與迫害，使他們感受到敬畏上帝的重要。然而當外邦人的勢力消除，過和平的日子，就依然故我！甚至後來還要求要有一位王來治理，讓先知撒母耳非常難過。
這也讓我們看見，我們若不以主耶穌為我們心中的王，我們也會如他們一樣，任憑己意而行，然後每況日下，最後離上帝越來越遠，甚至連信仰是甚麼都很模糊了！
