4. Make supplication to Yahweh and his might; seek his face continually.
5. Remember his wonders that he has done, his signs and the judgments of his mouth,
6. O offspring of Abraham his servant, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7. He is Yahweh our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
8. He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded for a thousand generations,
9. that he made with Abraham, and by his oath swore to Isaac.
10. He then confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11. saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment that is your inheritance.”
12. When they were few in number— a trifle—and were sojourners in it,
13. and they wandered about among the nations, from one kingdom to another people,
14. he allowed no one to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on account of them,
15. “Do not touch my anointed ones, nor harm my prophets.”
16. Then he called for a famine upon the land; he broke every supply of bread.
17. He sent a man on ahead of them; Joseph was sold as a slave.
18. They clamped his feet in fetters. His neck went into irons.
19. Until the time his word came about, the word of Yahweh tested him.
20. The king sent and he freed him; the ruler of the peoples sent and let him loose.
21. He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,
22. to obligate his officials as he saw fit and teach his elders wisdom.