15 Remember His covenant forever, the word that He commanded for a thousand generations—
16 that He made with Abraham, swore to Isaac,
17 and confirmed in a decree with Jacob to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
18 saying: “To you I give the land of Canaan as your allotted inheritance.”
19 When you were but a few in number, very few, and strangers in it,
20 and wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another,
21 He allowed no one to oppress them, but for their sake He reproved kings: