¹⁷ How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

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.

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

⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹¹ For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

¹⁹ O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

⁷ How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.

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

³¹ Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

⁹ And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,