¹⁶ He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

¹³ For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

⁵ As you don't know what is the way of the wind, Nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; Even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

⁹ But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.

⁵ Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.

²¹ A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

⁹ Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the womb]? says your God.

³ Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

¹⁴ I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

¹⁵ My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.

¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

¹⁴ But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come to me; for to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven."