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And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.

The Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth with everything in it.

So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:

No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.

And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.

And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.

Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out.

But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

Let the heavens have joy and let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, The Lord is King.

But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;