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For your faithful love is higher than the heavens,and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

God, be exalted above the heavens,and let your glory be over the whole earth.

The Lord is exalted above all the nations,his glory above the heavens.

who stoops down to lookon the heavens and the earth?

The heavens are the Lord’s,but the earth he has given to the human race.

He made the heavens skillfully.

Lord, part your heavens and come down.Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Hallelujah!Praise the Lord from the heavens;praise him in the heights.

Praise him, highest heavens,and you waters above the heavens.

The Lord founded the earth by wisdomand established the heavens by understanding.

I was there when he established the heavens,when he laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,so the hearts of kings cannot be investigated.

Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth,for the Lord has spoken:“I have raised children and brought them up,but they have rebelled against me.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,and the earth will shake from its foundationsat the wrath of the Lord of Armies,on the day of his burning anger.

Shining morning star,how you have fallen from the heavens!You destroyer of nations,you have been cut down to the ground.

You said to yourself,“I will ascend to the heavens;I will set up my throneabove the stars of God.I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,in the remotest parts of the North.

When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,it will then come down on Edomand on the people I have set apart for destruction.

Lord of Armies, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you are God—you alone—of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his handor marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measureor weighed the mountains on a balanceand the hills on the scales?

God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.He stretches out the heavens like thin clothand spreads them out like a tent to live in.