14 I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Wonderful are Your works,

And my soul knows it very well.

17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!

How vast is the sum of them! [Ps 40:5]

18 If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand.

When I awake, I am still with You.

3 When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,

The moon and the stars, which You have established,

4 What is man that You are mindful of him,

And the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?

5 Yet You have made him a little lower than *God,

And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

7 He raises the poor out of the dust

And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

8 That He may seat them with princes,

With the princes of His people.

7 But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks *at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people forGod’sown possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. [Ex 19:5, 6]

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two *copper coins? Yet not one of them has [ever] been forgotten in the presence of God.7 Indeed the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not be afraid; you are far more valuable than many sparrows.

3 For by the grace [of God] given to me I say to everyone of you not to think more highly of himself [and of his importance and ability] than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has apportioned to each a degree of faith [and a purpose designed for service].