1 And I besought the Mighty One, and said: Thou alone, O Lord, knowest of aforetime the deep things of the world, And the things which befall in their times Thou bringest about by Thy word, And against the works of the inhabitants of the earth Thou dost hasten the beginnings of the times, And the end of the seasons Thou alone knowest. (2BA) 2 (Thou) for whom nothing is too hard, But who dost everything easily by a nod: (2BA) 3 (Thou) to whom the depths come as the heights, And whose word the beginnings of the ages serve: (2BA)
2 Baruch 54:1–3
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