Guarantee the well-being of Your servant; let not the proud oppress me.
I will be a surety for him. You may hold me personally responsible for him. If I fail to bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
“Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will shake hands with me?
You rebuke the proud, the cursed, who stray from Your commandments.
Let not the foot of the arrogant tread on me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look wistfully upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Through this oath Jesus became the guarantor of a better covenant.