5. Remember his miraclesand all his wondersand his fair decisions.
6. You belong to the familyof Abraham, his servant;you are his chosen ones,the descendants of Jacob.
7. The Lord is our God,bringing justiceeverywhere on earth.
8. He will never forgethis agreement or his promises,not in thousands of years.
11. when he said, “I'll give youthe land of Canaan.”
12. At the time there wereonly a few of us,and we were homeless.
13. We wandered from nationto nation, from one countryto another.
14. God did not let anyoneill-treat our people.Instead he protected usby punishing rulers
15. and telling them,“Don't touch my chosen leadersor harm my prophets!”
16. God kept crops from growinguntil food was scarceeverywhere in the land.
17. But he had already sent Joseph,sold as a slave into Egypt,