4. Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually.
5. Remember His wonders which He has done, His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,
6. O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
7. He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
8. He has remembered His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,
9. The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac.
10. Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11. Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the portion of your inheritance,"
12. When they were only a few men in number, Very few, and strangers in it.
13. And they wandered about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
14. He permitted no man to oppress them, And He reproved kings for their sakes:
15. "Do not touch My 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, who was sold as a slave.
18. They afflicted his feet with fetters, He himself was laid in irons;
19. Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested him.