²     like fire igniting brushwood or making water boil.
^[a] If you would make your name known to your enemies,
    the nations would tremble in your presence.

³ When you accomplished wonders beyond all our expectations;
    when you came down, mountains quaked before you.
⁴ From ancient times,
    no one has heard,
    no ear has perceived,
    no eye has seen any god but you
    who acts on behalf of those who wait for him!^[b]