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

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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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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