Forgive the sins and errors of my youth. In your constant love and goodness, remember me, LORD!

Turn to me and have mercy on me as you do on all those who love you.

I pray you, O God, remember to my credit everything that I have done for this people.

Remember, my God, all these things that I have done for your Temple and its worship.

I ordered the Levites to purify themselves and to go and guard the gates to make sure that the Sabbath was kept holy. Remember me, O God, for this also, and spare me because of your great love.

I arranged for the wood used for burning the offerings to be brought at the proper times, and for the people to bring their offerings of the first grain and the first fruits that ripened. Remember all this, O God, and give me credit for it.

And he said to Jesus, "Remember me, Jesus, when you come as King!"

"Let us praise the Lord, the God of Israel! He has come to the help of his people and has set them free.

He has provided for us a mighty Savior, a descendant of his servant David.

Simon has just explained how God first showed his care for the Gentiles by taking from among them a people to belong to him.