but they become servants to him, and they know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.'
`Lo, we -- to-day -- `are' servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we `are' servants on it,
And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.
O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.
Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.
Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.
And these `are' the nations which Jehovah left, to try Israel by them, all who have not known all the wars of Canaan;
(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel's knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them) --