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13 For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,
    reveals his thoughts to mortals,
makes the morning darkness,
    and treads on the heights of the earth—
    the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!(A)

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The one who made the Pleiades and Orion
    and turns deep darkness into the morning
    and darkens the day into night,
who calls for the water of the sea
    and pours it out on the surface of the earth,
the Lord is his name,(A)

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For the Lord is coming out of his place
    and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.(A)

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who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth,
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name.(A)

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Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name—
    is the Holy One of Israel.(A)

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28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has disclosed to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen at the end of days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed were these:(A)

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16 Give glory to the Lord your God
    before he brings darkness
and before your feet stumble
    on the mountains at twilight;
while you look for light,
    he turns it into gloom
    and makes it deep darkness.(A)

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By your[a] strength you established the mountains;
    you are girded with might.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 65.6 Gk Jerome: Heb his

29 Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you,
    a people saved by the Lord,
the shield of your help
    and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
    but you shall tread on their backs.”(A)

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Jerusalem’s Victory

12 An Oracle.

The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:(A)

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On that day, says the Lord God,
    I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)

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19 Not like these is the portion of Jacob,
    for he is the one who formed all things,
and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
    the Lord of hosts is his name.(A)

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16 The portion of Jacob is not like these,
    for he is the one who formed all things,
and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
    the Lord of hosts is his name.(A)

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12 Who has measured the waters of the sea[a] in the hollow of his hand
    and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
    and weighed the mountains in scales
    and the hills in a balance?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 40.12 Q ms: MT lacks of the sea

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
    Tell me, if you have understanding.(A)
Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
    Or who stretched the line upon it?
On what were its bases sunk,
    or who laid its cornerstone(B)
when the morning stars sang together
    and all the heavenly beings[a] shouted for joy?(C)

“Or who shut in the sea with doors
    when it burst out from the womb,(D)
when I made the clouds its garment
    and thick darkness its swaddling band,(E)
10 and prescribed bounds for it,
    and set bars and doors,(F)
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
    and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?(G)

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  1. 38.7 Heb sons of God

13 He set him atop the heights of the land
    and fed him with[a] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
    with oil from flinty rock,(A)

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  1. 32.13 Sam Gk Syr Tg: MT he ate

20 It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And so the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night; one did not come near the other all night.

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22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was dense darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.(A)

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The wind[a] blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”(A)

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  1. 3.8 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit

19 God, the Lord, is my strength;
    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer
    and makes me tread upon the heights.[a]

To the leader: with stringed[b] instruments.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.19 Heb my heights
  2. 3.19 Heb my stringed

The Lord God has sworn by himself
(says the Lord, the God of hosts):
I abhor the pride of Jacob
    and hate his strongholds,
    and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.(A)

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27 therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.(A)

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13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,
    says the Lord God, the God of hosts:(A)

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16 When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
    and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightnings for the rain,
    and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.(A)

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13 When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
    and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
    and brings out the wind from his storehouses.(A)

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