¹¹ The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.

³⁷ Now when these words came to their ears their hearts were troubled, and they said to Peter and the other Apostles, Brothers, what are we to do?

¹⁴ I am the good keeper; I have knowledge of my sheep, and they have knowledge of me,

²³ And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.

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.

²³ And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

⁴ And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

¹² For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

⁴ (For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places);

¹⁰ And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?

⁷ But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

²⁹ Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?

¹⁷ Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

⁶ To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

⁸ And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

²⁴ But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel: