And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for {\i God's} own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword,\par\tab Neither did their own arm save them;\par\tab But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance,\par\tab Because thou wast favorable unto them.