²⁷ As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”^(A)

¹¹ And she made a vow,^(A) saying, “Lord Almighty^(B), if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember^(C) me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life,^(D) and no razor^(E) will ever be used on his head.”

¹² It may be that the Lord will look upon my misery^(A) and restore to me his covenant blessing^(B) instead of his curse today.^(C)”

²⁶ The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free,^(A) was suffering;^[a](B) there was no one to help them.^(C)