²⁵ For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised;
He is also to be feared above all gods.

^3 (A)Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him?
Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him?
^4 (B)Man is like a breath;
^(C)His days are like a passing shadow.

^5 (D)Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
^(E)Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
^6 (F)Flash forth lightning and scatter them;
Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.

⁷ You, Yourself, are to be feared;
And ^(A)who may stand in Your presence
When once You are angry?

⁵ Come and see the works of God;
He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.

^(C)“Great and marvelous are Your works,
Lord God Almighty!
^(D)Just and true are Your ways,
O King of the ^[a]saints!
^4 (E)Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
For You alone are ^(F)holy.
For ^(G)all nations shall come and worship before You,
For Your judgments have been manifested.”

⁶ Inasmuch as there is none ^(A)like You, O Lord
(You are great, and Your name is great in might),
^7 (B)Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?
For this is Your rightful due.
For ^(C)among all the wise men of the nations,
And in all their kingdoms,
There is none like You.
⁸ But they are altogether ^(D)dull-hearted and foolish;
A wooden idol is a ^[a]worthless doctrine.
⁹ Silver is beaten into plates;
It is brought from Tarshish,
And ^(E)gold from Uphaz,
The work of the craftsman
And of the hands of the metalsmith;
Blue and purple are their clothing;
They are all ^(F)the work of skillful men.
¹⁰ But the Lord is the true God;
He is ^(G)the living God and the ^(H)everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth will tremble,
And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

^12 (A)Who has measured the ^[a]waters in the hollow of His hand,
Measured heaven with a ^[b]span
And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure?
Weighed the mountains in scales
And the hills in a balance?
^13 (B)Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,
Or as His counselor has taught Him?
¹⁴ With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him,
And ^(C)taught Him in the path of justice?
Who taught Him knowledge,
And showed Him the way of understanding?

¹⁵ Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket,
And are counted as the small dust on the scales;
Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.
¹⁶ And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
¹⁷ All nations before Him are as ^(D)nothing,
And ^(E)they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.