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Can any idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Thus says the Lord : If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all they have done, says the Lord .

Ah Lord God ! It is you who made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

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.

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall shout for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, says the Lord .

Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the Lord 's heavens.

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens, and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

All the shining lights of the heavens I will darken above you, and put darkness on your land, says the Lord God .

On that day I will answer, says the Lord , I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth;

The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

I will show portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens, and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name.

You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust sheds its skin and flies away.

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens; those who bow down and swear to the Lord , but also swear by Milcom;

Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.