8. He has remembered his covenant for all ages: the word that he entrusted to a thousand generations,
9. which he assigned to Abraham, and his oath to Isaac.
10. And he stationed the same for Jacob with a precept, and for Israel with an eternal testament,
11. saying: To you, I will give the land of Canaan, the allotment of your inheritance.
12. Though they may have been but a small number, very few and foreigners there,
13. and though they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people,
14. he allowed no man to harm them, and he reproved kings on their behalf.
15. Do not be willing to touch my Christ, and do not be willing to malign my prophets.
16. And he called a famine upon the land, and he crushed every foundation of the bread.
17. He sent a man before them: Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
18. They humbled his feet in shackles; the iron pierced his soul,
19. until his word arrived. The eloquence of the Lord inflamed him.