<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;You, my servant Israel,p> <p class="poetry">Jacob whom I have chosen,p> <p class="poetry">offspring of Abraham my friend,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look at Abraham, your father,p> <p class="poetry">and Sarah, who gave you birth.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">When I summoned him, he was a lone individual,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but I blessed him<n id="3" /> and gave him numerous descendants.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For you are our father,p> <p class="poetry">though Abraham does not know usp> <p class="poetry">and Israel does not recognize us.p> <p class="poetry">You, <sc>Lordsc>, are our father;p> <p class="poetry">you have been called our protector from ancient times.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">So this is what the <sc>Lordsc>, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Jacob will no longer be ashamed;p> <p class="poetry">their faces will no longer show their embarrassment.<n id="2" />p>