When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;

to Him who made great lights, for His mercy is eternal;

the moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy is eternal.

Then God said, Let there be luminaries in the firmament of the heavens, to distinguish the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;

And God made two great luminaries: the greater luminary to rule the day, and the lesser luminary to rule the night, and also the stars.

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

And take heed, when you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, that you not be driven to bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under the heavens.

if I have observed the sun when it shines, or the moon moving in splendor,

this also would be a perversity deserving of judgment, for I would have denied the Mighty God above.

Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Thus says Jehovah, who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea when its waves roar (Jehovah of Hosts is His name);