From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.

Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.

The earth trembled and quaked, the foundations of the heavens shook; they trembled because he was angry.

He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet.

“But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”

The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

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

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

But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?

“But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

and prayed: “I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?

so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.

Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’

The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.