Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment; and its inhabitants shall die in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.

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.

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

what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par The heavens declare the glory of the Mighty God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.

Thus says Jehovah, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb: I am Jehovah, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads out the earth by Myself;

forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I, Jehovah, do all these things.

My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. When I called to them, they stood up together.

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

And on the seventh day God completed His work which He had made, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.

Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars of light!

Let them praise the name of Jehovah, for He commanded and they were created.

So you shall say to them, The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

For by Him all things were created that are in Heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name.

Great is our Lord, and of great power; His understanding is infinite.

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; You have founded the world and all its fullness.

You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, and exalted is Your right hand.

Ah, Lord Jehovah! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You.

great in counsel and mighty in work; for Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.