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Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

Though they dig down to the depths of the grave, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.

he who builds his lofty palace in the heavens and sets its foundation on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land- the LORD is his name.

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

Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.

Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

"This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

"Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I will shake the heavens and the earth.

"The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop their dew. I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people.

An Oracle This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD , who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares:

And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)

He also says, "In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.

Such a high priest meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."

Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.

But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.