22. Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance, And as a drop of dew that at morning comes down upon the earth.
23. But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, And you overlookest the sins of men to the end they may repent.
24. For you love all things that are, And abhor none of the things which you did make; For never would you have formed anything if you did hate it.
25. And how would anything have endured, except you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved?
26. But you spare all things, because they are your, O Soverign Lord, you lover of men’s lives;