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We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds.

He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the Lord.

Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.

Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of the heavens strove upon the great sea.

And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.

At their presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens are moved: the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.

And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and the earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:

But there shall be the seed of peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:

And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.

And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.

And forthwith coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens open and the Spirit as a dove descending and remaining on him.

(7-55) And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.