Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Psalms 78:65 in context
Psalms 78:62–68
62
He also gave his people over to the sword,
and was angry with his inheritance.
63
Fire devoured their young men.
Their virgins had no wedding song.
64
Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows couldn’t weep.
65
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Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
66
He struck his adversaries backward.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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