Psalms 33:8-17

⁸Let the whole world honor the Lord, let all who live on earth be in awe.

⁹For at his word it came into being, at his command it stood forth.

¹⁰The Lord frustrates the designs of the nations, what the peoples have purposed, he brings to nought,

¹¹but the Lord's own design will stand forever, and what his heart has purposed, through all generations.

¹²Happy the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for himself as his own.

¹³The Lord looks down from heaven, he sees all of humanity;

¹⁴from where he rules he gazes on all who inhabit the earth.

¹⁵He fashions the hearts of them all, and gives heed to all that they do.

¹⁶It is not by great armies that kings are victorious, it is not by great strength that a warrior saves himself;

¹⁷false hope is the war-horse to usher in victory, for all its great might it can provide no escape.