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For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The Lord reigns!"

Yours, O Lord , is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord , and you are exalted as head above all.

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,

saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

"You are the Lord , you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;

"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.

Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

"Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.