⁶ You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

⁹ But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

¹⁰ I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

¹⁵ My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

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.

¹ <Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went.> I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

⁵ And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength.

³ Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

⁴ Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.

²⁰ Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

¹⁵ But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

³¹ And see, you will give birth to a son, and his name will be Jesus.

³² He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:

⁴ Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

¹ Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

¹⁷ Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

¹ <A Song of praise. Of David.> Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever.

² Every day will I give you blessing, praising your name for ever and ever.

¹⁴ But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.