Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you,
Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.
This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.
This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.
Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.
The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.
Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.
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;
The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;
By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:
The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:
And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.
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.
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.
Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.
And straight away, coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens broken open and the Spirit coming down on him as a dove:
And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved.
And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;
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.
The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.
When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:
In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens; his kingdom is ruling over all.
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.
Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
The Lord is high over all nations, and his glory is higher than the heavens.
Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?
The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
<A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
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