¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

² Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

² From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

¹⁵ But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

¹³ Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

⁹ He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

¹⁵ Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

²³ Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

¹¹ And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

¹³ He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.

¹³ My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

¹⁴ Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

²⁹ He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.

³⁰ Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

³¹ But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

⁴⁵ Happy will she be who had faith that the things which the Lord has said to her will be done.

²¹ Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.

⁵ Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

³ For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

⁴ And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.

⁵ One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

⁷ Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.

⁸ When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

⁹ Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

¹⁰ Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:

⁷ The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

¹¹ He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

¹⁹ He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

¹⁷ Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

⁹ And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

²¹ When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.