1 Kings 8:27
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
27 “Is God indeed to dwell on earth? If the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain you, how much less this house which I have built!
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Nehemiah 9:6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 [a]“You are the Lord, you alone;
You made the heavens,
the highest heavens and all their host,
The earth and all that is upon it,
the seas and all that is in them.
To all of them you give life,
the heavenly hosts bow down before you.
Footnotes
- 9:6–37 The Septuagint attributes the prayer to Ezra; cf. Ezr 9:6–15.
Psalm 148:4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 Praise him, highest heavens,[a]
you waters above the heavens.
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