Alleluia. Sing to the Lord a new song; His praise is in the assembly of the saints.

The voice of the Lord strengthens the deer, and will uncover the thickets; and in His temple everyone speaks [of His] glory.

I will go into Your house with whole burnt offerings; I will pay You my vows,

I will offer to You whole burnt sacrifices full of marrow, with incense and rams; I will sacrifice to You oxen with goats. Pause.

I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the presence of all His people,

in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.

Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord.

This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter by it.

Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.

And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.

And I heard the sound of their wings when they went, as the sound of much water: and when they stood, their wings were let down.

that was over their head, there was as the appearance of a sapphire stone, [and] the likeness of a throne upon it. And upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as an appearance of a man above.

Then I looked, and behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim [there was] a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone.

And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and [some] of the many righteous as the stars forever and ever.