3. Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek and require the Lord [as their indispensable necessity].
4. Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore.
5. [Earnestly] remember the marvelous deeds that He has done, His miracles and wonders, the judgments and sentences which He pronounced [upon His enemies, as in Egypt]. [Ps. 78:43-51.]
6. O you offspring of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones,
7. He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
8. He is [earnestly] mindful of His covenant and forever it is imprinted on His heart, the word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations,
9. The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His sworn promise to Isaac, [Luke 1:72, 73.]
10. Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11. Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan as your measured portion, possession, and inheritance.
12. When they were but a few men in number, in fact, very few, and were temporary residents and strangers in it,
13. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people,
14. He allowed no man to do them wrong; in fact, He reproved kings for their sakes, [Gen. 12:17; 20:3-7.]
15. Saying, Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm. [I Chron. 16:8-22.]
16. Moreover, He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt]; He cut off every source of bread. [Gen. 41:54.]
17. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold as a servant. [Gen. 45:5; 50:20, 21.]
18. His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron and his soul entered into the iron,
19. Until his word [to his cruel brothers] came true, until the word of the Lord tried and tested him.
20. The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the peoples, and let him go free.
21. He made Joseph lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, [Gen. 41:40.]