²⁴ Though he stumble, he shall not fall, For Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

¹⁴ Yahweh upholds all who fall, And raises up all those who are bowed down.

¹⁶ For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸ I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

³⁰ I and the Father are one."

³¹ The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

³² but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}."

¹⁸ When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

⁷ But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

⁸ Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, But Yahweh upholds the righteous.

³⁴ and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

² He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, And gave me a firm place to stand.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

²⁰ He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

⁶ Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

¹² They will bear you up in their hands, So that you won't dash your foot against a stone.

⁶⁰ But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

⁶¹ The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."

⁶² He went out, and wept bitterly.