O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. This opening negation establishes the speaker's posture of humility and acceptance of creaturely limitations, refusing the presumption that human understanding can encompass divine mysteries. The imagery of lifted heart and raised eyes suggests both pride and grasping ambition; the renunciation of these becomes a form of spiritual discipline. The phrase things too great and too marvelous for me acknowledges a chasm between human and divine cognition that should produce humility rather than frustration. This verse establishes trust as inherently tied to the renunciation of the need to understand and control; faith flourishes precisely where presumption has been relinquished.

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