O Lord my God, You have multiplied Your wonderful works, and in Your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to You; I declared and spoke [of them]; they exceeded in number.

For He rejoiced when He had completed the world, and rejoiced among the children of men.

For My counsels are not as your counsels, nor are My ways as your ways, says the Lord.

But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is My way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from My mind.

And I will devise for you a plan of peace, and not evil, to bestow upon you these [good things].

and to enlighten all [as to] what is the administration of the mystery, which had been hidden from the ages in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies,

How abundant is the multitude of Your goodness, O Lord, which You have laid up for them that fear You! You have wrought [it] out for them that hope on You, in the presence of the sons of men.

How have You multiplied Your mercy, O God! So the children of men shall trust in the shelter of Your wings.