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Be exalted Above the Heavens, O God, Above all the earth, thy glory!

For, great, unto the heavens, is thy lovingkindness, And, unto the skies, thy faithfulness.

Be exalted Above the heavens, O God, Above all the earth, thy glory!

Earth, trembled, Yea, the heavens, dripped at the presence of God, - This Sinai - at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Unto him that rideth upon the most ancient heavens, Lo! he uttereth his voice, a voice of strength.

Let the heavens and the earth, praise him, The seas, and everything that creepeth therein.

They have set, in the heavens, their mouth, And, their tongue, marcheth through the earth.

Whom have I in the heavens? And, compared with thee, there is nothing I desire on earth.

Out of the heavens, didst thou cause judgment to be heard, Earth, feared and was still:

Though he had commanded the skies above, And, the doors of the heavens, had opened;

And had rained on them manna to eat, And, the corn of the heavens, had given to them:

He let loose an east wind in the heavens, Then guided he, in his might, a south wind;

They have given, The dead bodies of thy servants, As food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy men of lovingkindness, Unto the wild beast of the earth:

O God of hosts, return, we pray thee, - Look down out of the heavens, and see, And inspect this vine:

Faithfulness, out of the earth, doth spring forth, And, righteousness, out of the heavens, hath looked down.

For I said, To times age-abiding, shall lovingkindness be built up, As for the heavens, thou wilt establish thy faithfulness therein.

So shall the heavens praise thy wondrousness, O Yahweh, - Yea, thy faithfulness, in the convocation of holy ones.

Thine, are the heavens, Yea, thine, the earth, The world and the fulness thereof, Thou, didst found them;

Therefore will I appoint, to futurity, his seed, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

For, all the gods of the peoples, are things of nought - But, Yahweh, made, the heavens.