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11 He takes care of his people,
    like a shepherd who takes care of his sheep.[a]
He picks up the young lambs
    and he carries them near to his heart.
He carefully leads the mother sheep that have lambs.

12 Nobody has done what God has done!
    He measured all the water of the seas in one hand.
    He used his hand to measure the whole sky.
    He carefully weighed the soil of the earth.
    He carefully weighed the mountains in his scales,
    and the hills too.
13 Nobody understands the mind of the Lord.
Nobody can be his advisor,
    to tell him what he should do.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:11 A shepherd is a picture of somebody who takes care of his people. God often thinks about his people as sheep who need a shepherd.