You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

He is the one who forms every human heart, and takes note of all their actions.

Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

You set up all the boundaries of the earth; you created the cycle of summer and winter.

Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.