^{24 Ref} and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, `Lord, thou `art' God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that `are' in them,

^{25 Ref} who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

^{26 Ref} the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

^{27 Ref} for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

^{28 Ref} to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

^{29 Ref} `And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,

^{30 Ref} in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.'