The Army and Navy Hymnal/Readings/The Majesty of God
SELECTION 4
THE MAJESTY OF GOD
WHO hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span,
And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice,
And taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance:
Behold he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
All the nations are as nothing before him;
They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
To whom then will ye liken God?
Or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning?
Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers.
That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
That bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number:
He calleth them all by name;
By the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, Israel,
My way is hid from the Lord, and the justice due to me is
passed away from my God?
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary;
There is no searching of his understanding.
He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings as eagles;
They shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.