¹⁵ “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
    and have no compassion on the child^(A) she has borne?
Though she may forget,
    I will not forget you!^(B)
16 See, I have engraved^(C) you on the palms of my hands;
    your walls^(D) are ever before me.
¹⁷ Your children hasten back,
    and those who laid you waste^(E) depart from you.

¹³ As a father has compassion^(A) on his children,
    so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
¹⁴ for he knows how we are formed,^(B)
    he remembers that we are dust.^(C)
15 The life of mortals is like grass,^(D)
    they flourish like a flower^(E) of the field;
¹⁶ the wind blows^(F) over it and it is gone,
    and its place^(G) remembers it no more.
¹⁷ But from everlasting to everlasting
    the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
    and his righteousness with their children’s children^(H)—
¹⁸ with those who keep his covenant^(I)
    and remember^(J) to obey his precepts.^(K)