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"Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!

"There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to your help, And the clouds in His majesty.

"So Israel lives in security, The fountain of Jacob secluded, In a land of grain and new wine; His heavens also drip down dew.

"LORD, when You went out from Seir, When You marched from the field of Edom, The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped, The clouds also dripped water.

"Those who contend with the LORD will be terrified; Against them He will thunder in the heavens, The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; And He will give strength to His king, And will exalt the horn of His anointed."

"He also bowed the heavens down low, and came down With thick darkness under His feet.

"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and praise Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens.

Let the heavens be joyful, and the earth rejoice; And let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns."

"Yours, LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and on the earth; Yours is the dominion, LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.

"But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? And who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him?

"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and praise Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

"If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

and he said, "LORD, God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You.

and I said, "My God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God, for our wrongful deeds have risen above our heads, and our guilt has grown even to the heavens.

but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered were in the most remote part of the heavens, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to have My name dwell.'

"You alone are the LORD. You have made the heavens, The heaven of heavens with all their lights, The earth and everything that is on it, The seas and everything that is in them. You give life to all of them, And the heavenly lights bow down before You.

Who alone stretches out the heavens, And tramples down the waves of the sea;

"They are as high as the heavens; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

So a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens no longer exist, He will not awake nor be woken from his sleep.