"Then the Lord awoke as from sleep" (Psalm 78:65; NKJV)
Jehovah neither slumbers nor sleeps (see Psalm 121). Yet, Israel awoke Him as from sleep with their testing, provoking, turning back and unfaithfulness. He awoke and beat back His enemies.
Do not wake the sleeping giant that is Jehovah, the Lord of Hosts. Learn from the mistakes Israel. Know His will and make it your own.
Psalm 78:56-72; ASV
56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies;
57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard (this), he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel;
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the adversary's hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword, and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
