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For thus says the Lord , who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos, he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the Lord , and there is no other.

You are wearied with your many consultations; let those who study the heavens stand up and save you, those who gaze at the stars, and at each new moon predict what shall befall you.

My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand at attention.

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones.

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

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and those who live on it will die like gnats; but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never be ended.

You have forgotten the Lord , your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

I have put my words in your mouth, and hidden you in the shadow of my hand, stretching out the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, "You are my people."

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

O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—

For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord ; so shall your descendants and your name remain.

Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the Lord ,

I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

Because of this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above grow black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back.

Even the stork in the heavens knows its times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the ordinance of the Lord .

Thus says the Lord : Do not learn the way of the nations, or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

Thus shall you say to them: The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.