16. He call'd for famine on the land,he brake the staff of bread:
17. But yet he sent a man before,by whom they should be fed;Ev'n Joseph, whom unnat'rallysell for a slave did they;
18. Whose feet with fetters they did hurt,and he in irons lay;
19. Until the time that his word cameto give him liberty;The word and purpose of the Lorddid him in prison try.
20. Then sent the king, and did commandthat he enlarg'd should be:He that the people's ruler wasdid send to set him free.
21. A lord to rule his familyhe rais'd him, as most fit;To him of all that he possess'dhe did the charge commit:
22. That he might at his pleasure bindthe princes of the land;And he might teach his senatorswisdom to understand.