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Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld the dew and the earth has withheld its produce.

For thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and dry land.

"Say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth,

"Woe! Woe! Flee from the land of the north," declares Yahweh, "for I have scattered you like the four winds of the heavens," declares Yahweh.

And the angel answered and said to me, "These are the four winds of the heavens going out after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.

‘For there will be a sowing of peace; the vine will give its fruit, and the soil will give its produce, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. "Thus declares Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, founds the earth, and forms the spirit of humankind in its midst:

Now after he was baptized, Jesus immediately went up from the water, and behold, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove coming upon him.

And immediately as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens being split apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him.

and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.'

people fainting from fear and expectation of what is coming on the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

for the administration of the fullness of times, to bring together all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him

The one who descended himself is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order that he might fill all things.

because all things in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all things were created through him and for him,

And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of your hands;

Therefore, because we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

For a high priest such as this indeed is fitting for us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become exalted above the heavens,

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God,