And because He has loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them and brought you out of Egypt before Him with His mighty power,

to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.

you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have acquired me this wealth.

But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives you power to acquire wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers, as it is this day.

I sent the hornet before you which drove them out before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword or with your bow.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the Word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us.

Set apart Your wonderful lovingkindness, O You who by Your right hand saves those who trust in You, from those who rise up against me.

Now I know that Jehovah saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy Heaven with the saving strength of His right hand.

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? From your bosom, draw it out of Your bosom and exterminate them.

Fear and dread falls upon them; by the greatness of Your arm they are as still as a stone, till Your people pass over, O Jehovah, till the people whom You have redeemed pass over.

who led them by the right hand of Moses with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make for Himself an everlasting name?

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and murmur within me? Hope in God; for I shall praise Him for the deliverance coming from His presence.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you murmur within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him for the deliverance coming from the presence of my God.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Your face.

If Jehovah has delighted in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us; a land flowing with milk and honey.

Jehovah did not set His love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;

but because Jehovah loves you, and to keep the oath which He has sworn to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

For Jehovah will not abandon His people, for His great name's sake, because Jehovah has undertaken to make you a people for Himself.

I have loved you, says Jehovah. Yet you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? says Jehovah; yet I loved Jacob,

and I have hated Esau and have made his mountains and his inheritance a desolation for the jackals of the wilderness.

And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac

it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Let it not be!