¹⁶ Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

¹⁶ Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

¹² In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

¹²⁵ I am your servant. Give me understanding, That I may know your testimonies.

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

²² But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

²³ For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound;

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their bonds in sunder.

¹⁵ Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, For his wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶ For he has broken the gates of brass, And cut through bars of iron.

¹¹ Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

¹² When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

¹³ He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.