^{23 Ref} And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

^{24 Ref} But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.