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Lamedh Forever, O Lord , your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

A Song of Ascents. To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!

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

Bow your heavens, O Lord , and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!

He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on 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!

Praise the Lord ! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty 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 heart of kings is unsearchable.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: "Children 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 land.

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.

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

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;

Thus says God, the Lord , who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.