When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,

He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

He counts the number of the stars; he names all of them.

May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!

Our Lord is great and has awesome power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

O Lord, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!

For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.