Show us your unfailing love,(A) Lord,
    and grant us your salvation.(B)

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Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

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“But now, for a brief moment, the Lord our God has been gracious(A) in leaving us a remnant(B) and giving us a firm place[a](C) in his sanctuary, and so our God gives light to our eyes(D) and a little relief in our bondage.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 9:8 Or a foothold

And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

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Moses answered them, “Wait until I find out what the Lord commands concerning you.”(A)

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And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.

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I will listen to what God the Lord says;
    he promises peace(A) to his people, his faithful servants—
    but let them not turn to folly.(B)

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I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

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May the Lord now show you kindness and faithfulness,(A) and I too will show you the same favor because you have done this.

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And now the Lord shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.

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“Who let the wild donkey(A) go free?
    Who untied its ropes?

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Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

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13 I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains(A) for the gospel.

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13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

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He upholds(A) the cause of the oppressed(B)
    and gives food to the hungry.(C)
The Lord sets prisoners free,(D)

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Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

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Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness

Again I looked and saw all the oppression(A) that was taking place under the sun:

I saw the tears of the oppressed—
    and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
    and they have no comforter.(B)

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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

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“Let us break their chains(A)
    and throw off their shackles.”(B)

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Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

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14 Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands.(A) Has not the Lord gone ahead(B) of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.

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14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the Lord gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

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Then you will call,(A) and the Lord will answer;(B)
    you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
    with the pointing finger(C) and malicious talk,(D)

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Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

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12 Then you will call(A) on me and come and pray(B) to me, and I will listen(C) to you.

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12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

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