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Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the eretz open, that it may bring forth yeshu`ah, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, the LORD, have created it.

I have made the eretz, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.

For thus says the LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the eretz and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is no one else.

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the eretz, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

Sing, heavens; and be joyful, eretz; and break forth into singing, mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the eretz beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the eretz shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

and have forgotten the LORD your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the eretz; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the eretz, and tell Tziyon, You are my people.

For as the heavens are higher than the eretz, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new eretz; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

For as the new heavens and the new eretz, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says the LORD.

I saw the eretz, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

For this shall the eretz mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the eretz, these shall perish from the eretz, and from under the heavens.

He has made the eretz by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the eretz; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

Ah Lord GOD! behold, you have made the heavens and the eretz by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,