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and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:

So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath pierced the swift serpent.

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.

Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?

He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.

Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.