For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”

And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.

David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.