12 When they were few in number,a handful, and strangers there,
13 Wandering from nation to nation,from one kingdom to another people,
14 He let no one oppress them;for their sake he rebuked kings:
15 “Do not touch my anointed ones,to my prophets do no harm.”
16 Then he called down a famine on the land,destroyed the grain that sustained them.
17 He had sent a man ahead of them,Joseph, sold as a slave.
18 They shackled his feet with chains;collared his neck in iron,