For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.
Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Surely God is good to Israel, (Even) to such as are pure in heart.
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.
And they shall know that I, Jehovah, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.
And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.