Thou art worthy, &c. Here we have the praise of God the Creator by His Creatures as such: in the next ch. we have the praise of the Redeemer.

for thy pleasure Better, because of Thy will.

they are Read they were: not exactly "they came into being," but "they had their being," as the simple verb substantive is very well translated in Acts 17:28.

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