For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters.

Who cover [Yourself] with light as [with] a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,

Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry [land] appear"; and it was so.

He stretches out the north over empty space; [He] hangs the earth on nothing.

With Him, have you spread out the skies, Strong as a cast metal mirror?

[It is] He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants [are] like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: "I [am] the LORD, who makes all [things,] Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;

He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.

The burden of the word of the LORD against Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:

For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,

But the heavens and the earth [which] are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.