⁵ So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.

⁶ Let your right hand be stretched out for salvation, and give me an answer, so that your loved ones may be safe from danger.

⁷ This is the word of the holy God: I will be glad; I will make Shechem a heritage, measuring out the valley of Succoth.

⁸ Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

⁹ Moab is my washpot; on Edom is the resting-place of my shoe; over Philistia will I send out a glad cry.

¹⁰ Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?

¹¹ Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.

¹² Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

¹³ With God we will do great things; for by him will our haters be crushed underfoot.

⁷ Make clear the wonder of your mercy, O saviour of those who put their faith in your right hand, from those who come out against them.

¹² Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.

⁵ While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.

¹⁷ And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

¹⁵ About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

² It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

¹¹ Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

⁸ He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.

⁶ Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.

³⁵ You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

¹² And of Benjamin he said, Benjamin is the loved one of the Lord, he will be kept safe at all times; he will be covered by the Most High, resting between his arms.

³ All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.

⁷ The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

⁸ But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

⁶ Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.