God hung the stars in the sky---the Dipper, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south.

Can you tie the Pleiades together or loosen the bonds that hold Orion?

Can you guide the stars season by season and direct the Big and the Little Dipper?

He sends light to places dark as death.

Job, have you ever in all your life commanded a day to dawn?

Have you ordered the dawn to seize the earth and shake the wicked from their hiding places?

Some were living in gloom and darkness, prisoners suffering in chains,

They were worn out from hard work; they would fall down, and no one would help.

He brought them out of their gloom and darkness and broke their chains in pieces.

The people who live in darkness will see a great light. On those who live in the dark land of death the light will shine."

and to shine from heaven on all those who live in the dark shadow of death, to guide our steps into the path of peace."

God is the one who made the mountains and created the winds. He makes his thoughts known to people; he changes day into night. He walks on the heights of the earth. This is his name: the LORD God Almighty!

The time is coming when I will make the sun go down at noon and the earth grow dark in daytime. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.

The LORD then said to Moses, "Raise your hand toward the sky, and a darkness thick enough to be felt will cover the land of Egypt."

The Egyptians could not see each other, and no one left his house during that time. But the Israelites had light where they were living.

Just before dawn the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw them into a panic.

The LORD said to Moses, "Hold out your hand over the sea, and the water will come back over the Egyptians and their chariots and drivers."

The water returned and covered the chariots, the drivers, and all the Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea; not one of them was left.

You made the night, and in the darkness all the wild animals come out.

God sent darkness on the country, but the Egyptians did not obey his command.

and we grope about like blind people. We stumble at noon, as if it were night, as if we were in the dark world of the dead.

The LORD builds his home in the heavens, and over the earth he puts the dome of the sky. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. His name is the LORD!

When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,

On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.

A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,

The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.

It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;

The seventh time he returned and said, "I saw a little cloud no bigger than a man's hand, coming up from the sea." Elijah ordered his servant, "Go to King Ahab and tell him to get in his chariot and go back home before the rain stops him."

In a little while the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind began to blow, and a heavy rain began to fall. Ahab got in his chariot and started back to Jezreel.

God sends rain to water the earth; he may send it to punish us, or to show us his favor.

Can you shout orders to the clouds and make them drench you with rain?

God is the one who made the mountains and created the winds. He makes his thoughts known to people; he changes day into night. He walks on the heights of the earth. This is his name: the LORD God Almighty!