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Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.

The heavens are the LORD's heavens, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

For ever, O LORD, thy word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

A Song of Ascents. To thee I lift up my eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens!

to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains that they smoke!

He covers the heavens with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow upon the hills.

Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens, praise him in the heights!

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

The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;

When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the mind of kings is unsearchable.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Sons have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

The earth mourns and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.

For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;