I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the LORD has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honourable in the LORD’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?
But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to God, even the Father;