Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.
If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? What he desires, that he does.
For he will complete what he appoints for me; and many such things are in his mind.
on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.
Truly, thou art a God who hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the Lord, who do all these things.
Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
This was according to the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
“ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.