Nature and Law

The words of God are pure; they are more precious than rubies;
They are wrapped up in hearts, they are bound up in souls.
Weary are all words with fervent pursuit after His praises,
For what hath one of numbered days to do with His infinite eternities?
As clouds above the dust, so high above him are God's ways.
How can understanding that is deficient and reason that is cut short
Grasp the ways of might, the high, the impregnable?
Be silent before Him, each that speaketh of Him, and perish his thought!
Only about His works let him frame song, let him ply his tongue;
Yea, concerning the law of His mouth let him lift his voice and make loud his throat.’
Tongues be giving forth speech, extolling, crowning;
Souls be glorifying, now to praise, and now to teach.
But wherewith shall I bow down and be worthy to come before the Lord ?’
Shall I lead the procession to the house of God with calves for mine offering?
Will He say: I will deliver them from the grave; I will be a father to My children?
All the lands, behold, are alien; so that one cannot bring an offering that is pure;
O build the chiefest city; be Thou pleased as with oblation from her courts.
Emptied is wisdom and dried up from the hearts of Kalkol and Darda:
All that they have known and thought is not as He thinketh and knoweth.
His works are too strong, too many, for the searching out of wisdom and reason.
His untold marvels, day by day, multiplying and bearing fruit—
These give unceasingly songs to Him, knowing not their numbers.
Behold clear witnesses are Thine: they fill every mountain and hill;
For upon every creature’s form there is of God a seal and a token,
And the shining of all the lights—the shining of seven for seven.
Even as He made of the seven lamps seven constellations,
So maketh He men's eyes luminaries to look upon the Light.