54
Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land,
to the hill country his right hand had taken.
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 fathers 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.