¹³² Let your eyes be turned to me, and have mercy on me, as it is right for you to do to those who are lovers of your name.

⁴ Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;

³¹ And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

¹¹ And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

¹² It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

¹⁶ Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

¹⁸ Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

¹²⁴ Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.

⁷ I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.

⁸ For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.

⁹ It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

⁶ For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,

⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,