4For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.
5And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.
6And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.
7I 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.
8For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
9It 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.
10But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.
