⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

⁵ O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

⁵ O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

⁹ As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

²⁹ But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?

⁶ We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

³ The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

⁸ Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

¹⁹ And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!

¹ They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.