7. He, Jehovah, is our God his judgments are in all the earth.
8. He is ever mindful of his covenant, --the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, --
9. Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
10. And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,
11. Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
12. When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.
13. And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
14. He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes,
15. Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.
16. And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.
17. He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.
18. They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;
19. Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.
20. The king sent and loosed him--the ruler of peoples--and let him go free.
21. He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions: