15. Remember His covenant forever, the word that He commanded for a thousand generations—
16. that He made with Abraham, swore to Isaac,
17. and confirmed in a decree with Jacob to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
18. saying: “To you I give the land of Canaan as your allotted inheritance.”
19. When you were but a few in number, very few, and strangers in it,
20. and wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another,