The Lord has well loved man: "He found him in a desert land, and in the
waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept
him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead him." "The Lord
hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded
him to be a captain over his people." "When I consider thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained,
[then] what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man,
that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him