Nevertheless they shall serve him, that they know the diversity of my service, and of the service of the realm of lands.
Lo! we ourselves be thralls today; and the land which thou gavest to our fathers, that they should eat the bread thereof, and the goods that be thereof, is thrall; and we ourselves be thralls, either bondmen, in that land.
And their enemies did tribulation to them, and they were meeked under the hands of enemies;
Our Lord God, lords had us in possession, without thee; only in thee have we mind of thy name.
Lord, chastise thou me; never-theless in doom, and not in thy strong vengeance, lest peradventure thou drive me to nought.
but also with meed they hired nations. Now I shall gather them together, and they shall rest a little from burden of the king and of princes.
These be the folks which the Lord left alive, that in them he should teach Israel, and all men that knew not the battles of Canaanites;
and that afterward the sons of them should learn to fight with enemies, and to have custom of battle.