Lk 1:54-5 says: He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy, 55 as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever.

Lk 1:32-33 "He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. (When would this happen and how?) 33 And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His Kingdom there will be no end."

Is 41:8-10 picks up the phraseology:
But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham My friend.

9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest regions, and said to you, 'You are My servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away: 10 Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'

Is 42:1 Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

Is 43:1,10 But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine." 10 "You are My witnesses," says the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He."

Is 44:1-3 Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen. 2 Thus says the LORD who made you and formed you from the womb, who will help you: 'Fear not, O Jacob My servant; and you, Jeshurun (possibly signifying the Upright One, a name for the Israel of God; occurs elsewhere only in Dt 32:15; 33:5,26), whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring;
Is 44:21 Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed you, you are My servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me!
Is 49:3,5,6 And He said to me, 'You are My servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.' 5 And now the LORD says, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel is gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and My God shall be My strength), 6 Indeed He says, 'It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a Light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.'

Is 50:10 Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of the LORD and rely upon his God.
Is 52:13 Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.
Is 53:11 He shall see the labour of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities.

Gal 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

• Ex 19:4-6 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a Kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you (Moses) shall speak to the children of Israel."

• For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith (Dt 32:20).
• Jesus said to them (Jewish leaders), "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham (Jn 8:39).
• Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham (Gal 3:7).
• So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham (Gal 3:9).
• If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise (Gal 3:29).
• (Abraham) received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also (Rom 4:11).
• Because of unbelief they were broken off (the olive tree of Israel), and you (Christians) stand by faith (so that as wild olive branches you are grafted into the original olive tree (Rom 11:20).
• And they also (i.e., Israel), if they do not continue in unbelief (and come into the Faith), will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again (Rom 11:23).
• So we see that they could not enter in(to the rest) because of unbelief (Heb 3:19).
• For indeed the Gospel was preached to us as well as to them (i.e., Israel); but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it (Heb 4:2).
• Since therefore it remains that some must enter it (i.e., the Land; and a remnant of Israel who enter into the Rest), and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience (Heb 4:6).
• Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience (Heb 4:11).

Heb 11:17-19 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son (Gk ton monogene; cp. Jn 1:14, os monogous para patros, the only begotten of the Father; Jn 1:18, monogenes theos, only begotten god; Jn 3:18, ton monogenous hiou tou theou, the only begotten son of the God; 1Jn 4:9, tou monogene, the only begotten), 18 of whom it was said, "In Isaac your seed shall be called," 19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense (Gk en parabole); i.e., Abraham saw the parallelism in the parable: Abraham and Isaac in this act on Mt Moriah foreshadowed the sacrifice of the Son of the Father and resurrection of the Son by His Father (cp. Gen 22:5 which tells us that Abraham told his servants to stay at the foot of the mountain and that he and his son would return).

Rom 4:7-18 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin" (from Ps 32:1-2). 9 Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only (i.e., Israelites by race and culture), or upon the uncircumcised also (Gentiles by race and culture)? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness (and the blessings through the faith of Abraham were prophesied to be upon many peoples). 10 How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still (physically) uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe (irrespective of race), though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised. 13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law (with its many national applications, but being spiritual laws they could not be observed nationally, whereas the calling of God extends to all the corners of the earth to all who will be saved), but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs (and they did not have faith), faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 15 because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression (but there is law, so there is transgression, and faith is required for forgiveness). 16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed (of all peoples on the earth), not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 17 (as it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations") in the presence of Him whom he believed; God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be."

Rom 9:6-9 But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, 7 nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham (i.e., in a racial sense); but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called" (and since Isaac prefigures Jesus Christ, we should recognize that all peoples are called into Jesus Christ and so become the children of Abraham and the children of God). 8 That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed (just as Isaac was, born after Ishmael, who was the firstborn son of Abraham, but who (i.e., Ishmael) prefigures all those whose belief is not according to the Faith (cp. Abel and Cain, Jacob and Esau, where the righteous son was not firstborn according to the flesh, but was firstborn according to the Spirit. The thought continues in Rom 9:9 For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son."

Rom 10:1-3 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel (of the flesh) is that they may be saved. 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God (which is seemingly rooted in the Scriptures-as was with Cain, Ishmael, Esau, Judas), but not according to knowledge (So Paul believed Israel was in the Land while he was there). 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

Rom 11:7 What then? (Paul asks). Israel has not obtained what it seeks (i.e., all the promises given to Israel); but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded (cp. Jer 3:8,14,15; Hos 2:19-20).
Rom 11:25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Rom 11:28-32 Concerning the Gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers (because in due time God wants all to be saved). 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable (i.e., God does want all to be saved; He has a Plan of Salvation; there is one calling, one baptism, one repentance, one giving of grace-and there is no other opportunity except the one given by God once). 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

Lk 1:32-3 "He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David (How and when?). 33 And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end."

Lk 2:29-32 (Simeon, who was waiting for the Consolation [Gk paraklesis] of Israel, prayed to God as he held the 8-day old Jesus who was brought into the temple for his circumcision): "Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; 30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation 31 which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, 32 a Light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the Glory of Your people Israel."

Is 40:1,11 "Comfort, yes, comfort My people!" says your God. 11 He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those who are with young.
Mic 4:6-10 "In that day," says the LORD, "I will assemble the lame, I will gather the outcast and those whom I have afflicted; 7 I will make the lame a remnant, and the outcast a strong nation (Rev 7 and 14 that speaks of the 144,000 who make up one nation, the Israel of God, and a company of nations, the 12 tribes); so the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion (the Church, Heb 12:22-23) from now on, even forever. 8 And you, O Tower of the flock, the Stronghold of the daughter of Zion, to You shall it come, even the former dominion shall come, the Kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem" (i.e., Christ is given the kingdom which is the Kingdom of priests, Ex 19:4-6; 1Pet 2:5,9; Rev 1:6; 5:9-10). 9 Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in your midst? Has your counsellor perished? For pangs have seized you like a woman in labour (feelings of being forsaken as Christ felt on the cross, but God has promised never to leave, never to forsake His children). 10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in birth pangs (Is 54:1-3 makes the comparison between the woman who is barren and the woman who has many children. This is parabolic of Sarah and Hagar; see also Rev 12:1ff). For now you shall go forth from the city, you shall dwell in the field, and to Babylon you shall go. There you shall be delivered; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

Mic 5:2-6 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting." 3 Therefore He shall give them up (i.e., Israel), until the time that she who is in labour has given birth; then the remnant of His brethren shall return to the children of Israel (the grafting of Rom 11 seems to be implied here). 4 And He shall stand and feed His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the Name of the LORD His God; and they shall abide, for now He shall be great to the ends of the earth; 5 And this One shall be peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land, and when he treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princely men. 6 They shall waste with the sword the land of Assyria, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; thus He (the Messiah) shall deliver us from the Assyrian (Babylon at the end time), when He comes into our land and when He treads within our borders.

Lk 1:56-58 informs us that Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months; just short of her delivering her son John. Neighbours and relatives rejoiced with her because of the extraordinary mercy shown her. Mercy is generally thought of as unmerited forgiveness. Quite obviously the mercy spoken of here is the bountiful and awesome blessing and favour. These verses are a fulfillment of Lk 1:5-26 and especially verses 13-14:

13 But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Lk 1:59-66 So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his father, Zacharias. 60 His mother answered and said, "No; he shall be called John." (This was contrary to tradition and family culture). 61 But they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name." 62 So they made signs to his father (Zacharias could not speak nor hear); what he would have him called. 63 And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, "His name is John" (God is gracious). So they all marveled. 64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, praising God. 65 Then fear came on all who dwelt around them; and all these sayings were discussed throughout all the hill country of Judea. 66 And all those who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, "What kind of child will this be?" And the hand of the Lord was with him.

The first use of a spiritual understanding of circumcision is in Exodus 6:12. The pre-incarnate Son of God asked Moses to go to Pharaoh. Moses responded with a self-effacing expression: The children of Israel have not heeded me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?

In that famous blessings and cursings chapter, Leviticus 26, Moses presents God's view saying that they would perish among the nations (v 38):

Lev 26:40-42 'But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, 41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt; 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.

Dt 10:16 Circumcise the foreskin of your heart (remove that veil of covering from your heart so that the sensitivities of God's spiritual Law might delight your heart), and be stiff-necked no longer (holding of the head of pride in arrogance, defiance, and shamelessness).
Dt 30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Jer 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jer 6:10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot give heed (they are insensate to the Word of God). Behold, the word of the LORD is a reproach to them; they have no delight in it.
Jer 9:26b … all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Acts 15:1-2,5,13-18,24 And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved." 2 Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question. 5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them (i.e., Gentiles in the church), and to command them to keep the law of Moses."

13 And after they had become silent, James answered, saying, "Men and brethren, listen to me: 14 Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His Name. 15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written (in Amos 9:11-12): 16 'After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up; 17 so that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD, even all the Gentiles who are called by My Name, says the LORD who does all these things.'"

Acts 15:18 "Known to God from eternity are all His works," James added.

Acts 15:24 .. we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, "You must be circumcised and keep the law"; to whom we gave no such commandment.

The apostle Paul maintained his position throughout his ongoing ministry.

Rom 2:28-29 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God (because God is the judge of the circumcision of the heart, and each of us should judge ourselves [1Cor 2:15; 11:31-32]).

Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
Phil 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Col 2:11-13 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses.

Similar concepts about circumcision are hidden in ancient and primitive rituals of initiation. In a death and resurrection section from J.G. Frazer's, The Golden Bough, (abridged edition; N.Y.: Macmillan, 1947), we read:

Among some primitive peoples, when blood of a tribesman has to be spilt it is not suffered to fall upon the ground, but is received upon the bodies of his fellow-tribesmen [see Ex 24:8; Is 52:15; 63;3; Heb 10:22]. Thus in some Australian tribes boys who are being circumcised are laid on a platform, formed by the living bodies of the tribesmen (p 229).
Some tribes of Northern New Guinea-the Yakim, Bukana, Kai, and Tami-like many Australian tribes, require every male member of the tribe to be circumcised before he ranks as a full-grown man; and the tribal initiation, of which circumcision is the central feature, is conceived by them, as by some Australian tribes, as a process of being swallowed by a mythical monster, whose voice is heard in the humming sound of the bull-roarer. … a hut about a hundred feet long [30m] is erected either in the village or in a lonely part of the forest. It is modelled in the shape of the mythical monster; at the end which represents his head it is high, and it tapers away at the other end. A betel-palm, grubbed up with the roots, stands for the backbone of the great being and its clustering fibres for his hair; and to complete the resemblance the butt end of the building is adorned by a native artist with a pair of goggle eyes and a gaping mouth. When after a tearful parting from their mothers and women folk, who believe or pretend to believe in the monster that swallows their dear ones, the awe-struck novices are brought face to face with this imposing structure, the huge creature emits a sullen growl, which is in fact no other than the humming note of the bull-roarers swung by men concealed in the monster's belly. … the present of a pig, opportunely offered for the redemption of the youth, induces the monster to relent [from keeping him in its belly] and disgorge its victim; the man who represents the monster accepts the gift vicariously, a gurgling sound is heard, and the water which had just been swallowed descends in a jet on the novice. This signifies that the young man has been released from the monster's belly. However, he has now to undergo the more painful and dangerous operation of circumcision. It follows immediately, and the cut made by the knife of the operator is explained to be the bite or scratch which the monster inflicted on the novice in spewing him out of its capacious maw. While the operation is proceeding, a prodigious noise is made swinging the bull-roarers to represent the roar of the dreadful being who is in the act of swallowing the young man.
When, as sometimes happens, a lad dies from the effect of the operation, he is buried secretly in the forest, and his sorrowing mother is told that the monster has a pig's stomach as well as a human stomach, and that unfortunately her son slipped into the wrong stomach, from which it is impossible to extricate him. After they have been circumcised the lads remain for some months in seclusion, shunning all contact with women and even the sight of them. They live in the long hut which represents the monster's belly. When at last the lads, now ranking as initiated men, are brought back with great pomp and ceremony to the village, they are received with sobs and tears of joy by the women, as if the grave had given up its dead [symbolic of resurrection]. At first the young men keep their eyes rigidly closed or even sealed with a plaster of chalk, and they appear not to understand the words of command which are given them by an elder. Gradually, however, they come to themselves as if awakening from a stupor, and next day they bathe and wash off the crust of white chalk with which their bodies had been coated.
… the being who swallows and disgorges the novices at initiation is believed to be a powerful ghost or ancestral spirit, and that the bull-roarer, which bears his name, is his material representative (pp 694-695).

DELIVERANCE
Once Zechariah, Zecharias in Greek, had expressed his full agreement with the message Gabriel had brought, with his hearing and speech restored, he prophesied of deliverance and salvation.

Lk 1:67-80 Now his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying: 68 "Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people, 69 and has raised up a horn [a symbol for leader who is anointed by God; Ps 132:17; Ezk 29:21] leader of salvation for us in the house of His servant David [here is the NT perspective that Jesus Christ came to the House of David which was in Israel then and not extant through the supposed marriage of another king and princess elsewhere], 70 as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, who have been since the world began,
71-74 [see also Gen 12:1-3; 15:5,18; 17:6-9; 18:18-19; 22:16-18; 26:3-4) that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us, 72 to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, 73 the oath which He swore to our father Abraham [v 55 as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever; and see again Gal 3:16,18; Rom 4:10-12; and carefully consider Gal 4:21-31]: 74 to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear,
75-76 in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life. 76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, (cf. Lk 1:32 He will be called great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David)
77-80 to give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, 78 through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high has visited us; 79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." 80 So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel (when he, John the Baptist, would prepare the Way for His Messiah [Mal 3:1; Is 40:3]).

Acts 13:22-27 After removing Saul, God made David their king. He testified concerning him: 'I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.' 23 From this man's descendants God has brought to Israel the Saviour Jesus, as He promised. 24 Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel. 25 As John was completing his work, he said: 'Who do you think I am? I am not that One. No, but He is coming after me, whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.' 26 Brothers, children of Abraham, and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. 27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

Ps 132:10-18 For Your servant David's sake, do not turn away the face of Your Anointed. 11 The LORD has sworn in truth to David; He will not turn from it: "I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body. 12 If your [royal] sons will keep My covenant and My testimony which I shall teach them, their sons also shall sit upon your throne forevermore." 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion (the Church); He has desired it for His dwelling place: 14 "This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it (And does not Christ dwell already in His Church, and does he not rule His Church, which is the Israel of God, and does he not rule from the throne of David now?) 15 I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread. 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. 17 There I will make the horn of David grow; I will prepare a lamp for My Anointed. 18 His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon Himself His crown shall flourish" (compare Acts 3:18-26).

Ps 105:9-10,42-45 The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac, 10 and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant
42 For He remembered His holy promise, and Abraham His servant. 43 He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with gladness. 44 He gave them the lands of the Gentiles, and they inherited the labour of the nations, 45 that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws. Praise the LORD!