How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! ¹  How vast is their sum total! ² 

And let the king’s decision which he will enact be disseminated ¹  throughout all his kingdom, vast though it is. ²  Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the most prominent to the lowly.”

Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

Over here is the deep, wide sea, ¹  which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, ²  living things both small and large.

Suddenly ¹  a vast, heavenly army ²  appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding ¹  was as infinite as the sand on the seashore.

So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army.

After these things I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a vast throng in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,

The heavens and the earth ¹  were completed with everything that was in them. ² 

he makes the Bear, ¹  Orion, ²  and the Pleiades, ³  and the constellations of the southern sky; ⁴ 

He piles up the water of the sea; ¹  he puts the oceans ²  in storehouses.

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, ¹  as well as frogs that overran their land. ² 

¹ Some traveled on ²  the sea in ships, and carried cargo over the vast waters. ³ 

when he established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong, ¹ 

Better to have a little with righteousness ¹  than to have abundant income without justice. ² 

He flashes ¹  destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms ²  the fortified places.)

Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

Now you are declaring that you will resist the Lord’s rule through the Davidic dynasty. ¹  You have a huge army, ²  and bring with you the gold calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

Messengers ¹  arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, “A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea, ²  from the direction of Edom. ³  Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).”

Foreigners living there will say, ¹  ‘We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed. Let’s leave Babylonia ²  and each go back to his own country. For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions. It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.’ ³