when famine comes, he will keep you alive, and in war protect you from death.

After they are sold, they still have the right to be bought back. A brother

and said, "As far as we have been able, we have been buying back our Jewish relatives who had to sell themselves to foreigners. Now you are forcing your own relatives to sell themselves to you, their own people!" The leaders were silent and could find nothing to say.

We can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives,

because the payment for a human life is too great. What we could pay would never be enough

But God will rescue me; he will save me from the power of death.

Repeat these words in praise to the LORD, all you whom he has saved. He has rescued you from your enemies

I will rescue you from the power of wicked and violent people. I, the LORD, have spoken."