O Lord, because I am your servant, your servant and the son of your handmaid, you have broken my bonds.
Alleluia. Praise the Lord, children. Praise the name of the Lord.
The exultations of God will be in their throat, and two-edged swords will be in their hands:
You take gold from a bag, and you weigh silver on a scale, so as to hire a goldsmith to make a god. And they fall prostrate and adore.
You know that when you were Gentiles, you approached mute idols, doing what you were led to do.
And when the Ashdodites had risen up at first light on the next day, behold, Dagon was lying prone on the ground before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and they set him again in his place.