For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;
If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;
He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.
In the same way he who had been given the two got two more.
And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.
And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?