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God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. 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 am going to 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.

A prophecy: 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 human spirit within a person, declares:

And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

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.

And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.

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

When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. "Sovereign Lord," they said, "you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.

"Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

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, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Such a high priest truly 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 came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.