²² I had said in my alarm,
    “I am driven far^[a] from your sight.”
But you heard my supplications
    when I cried out to you for help.^(A)

² you with your own hand drove out the nations,
    but them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
    but them you set free;^(A)

³ for not by their own sword did they win the land,
    nor did their own arm give them victory,
but your right hand, and your arm,
    and the light of your countenance,
    for you delighted in them.^(A)