I the Lord have called thee in rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and I took thine hand, and kept thee, and I gave thee into a bond of peace of the people, and into light of folks.
Yet while he spake, lo! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! a voice out of the cloud, that said, This is my dearworthy Son, in whom I have well pleased to me; hear ye him.
Lo! the hour cometh, and now it cometh, that ye be dispersed, [or scattered], each into his own things, and that ye leave me alone; and I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
I may nothing do of myself, but as I hear, I deem, [or I may not of myself do anything, but as I hear, I judge], and my doom is just, for I seek not my will, but the will of the Father that sent me.
But the Lord helped me [or the Lord stood nigh to me], and comforted me, that the preaching be [full]-filled by me, and that all folks hear, that I am delivered from the mouth of the lion.