¹⁶ O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

¹⁶ O be turned to me and have mercy on me: give your strength to your servant, and your salvation to the son of her who is your servant.

¹² And in your mercy put an end to my haters, and send destruction on all those who are against my soul; for I am your servant.

¹²⁵ I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.

²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

²³ For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,

²⁶ If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

¹⁴ He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

¹⁵ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

¹⁶ The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

¹¹ So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

¹² And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

¹³ And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.