Ecclesiastes 8:17

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.

Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

to him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

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“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!”

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.