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The Lord, who lives forever, created the whole universe,
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He has given no one enough power to describe what he has done, and no one can investigate it completely.
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Who can measure his majestic power? Who can tell the whole story of his merciful actions?
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We cannot add to them; we cannot subtract from them. There is no way to comprehend the marvelous things the Lord has done.
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When we come to the end of that story, we have not even begun; we are simply at a loss for words.
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What are human beings? Of what use are we? The good that we do - the evil that we do - what does it all mean?
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If we live a hundred years, we have lived an unusually long time,
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but compared with all eternity, those years are like a drop of water in the ocean, like a single grain of sand.
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That is why the Lord is so patient with us, why he is so free with his mercy.