²⁰ When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

¹⁹ To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

⁶ And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end.

¹⁷ For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

¹⁴ I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

¹⁶ He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

³ The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

¹⁰ It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.

⁷ Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

¹⁹ They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

³ Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

⁶ And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.

⁷ God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.