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- He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,
- the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
- He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
- "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit."
- When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,
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- they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
- He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:
- "Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm."
- He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;
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