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14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,(A)

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14 And God said, “Let there be lights(A) in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night,(B) and let them serve as signs(C) to mark sacred times,(D) and days and years,(E)

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19 You have made the moon to mark the seasons;
    the sun knows its time for setting.(A)
20 You make darkness, and it is night,
    when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.(B)

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19 He made the moon to mark the seasons,(A)
    and the sun(B) knows when to go down.
20 You bring darkness,(C) it becomes night,(D)
    and all the beasts of the forest(E) prowl.

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19 And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.(A)

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19 And when you look up to the sky and see the sun,(A) the moon and the stars(B)—all the heavenly array(C)—do not be enticed(D) into bowing down to them and worshiping(E) things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

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35 Thus says the Lord,
who gives the sun for light by day
    and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
    the Lord of hosts is his name:(A)

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35 This is what the Lord says,

he who appoints(A) the sun
    to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
    to shine by night,(B)
who stirs up the sea(C)
    so that its waves roar(D)
    the Lord Almighty is his name:(E)

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16 Yours is the day, yours also the night;
    you established the luminaries[a] and the sun.(A)
17 You have fixed all the bounds of the earth;
    you made summer and winter.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 74.16 Or moon; Heb light

16 The day is yours, and yours also the night;
    you established the sun and moon.(A)
17 It was you who set all the boundaries(B) of the earth;
    you made both summer and winter.(C)

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He established them forever and ever;
    he fixed their bounds, which cannot be passed.[a](A)

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  1. 148.6 Or he set a law that cannot pass away

and he established them for ever and ever—
    he issued a decree(A) that will never pass away.

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Praise him, sun and moon;
    praise him, all you shining stars!

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Praise him, sun(A) and moon;
    praise him, all you shining stars.

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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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He who made the Pleiades and Orion,(A)
    who turns midnight into dawn(B)
    and darkens day into night,(C)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.(D)

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who made the great lights,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)
the sun to rule over the day,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(B)
the moon and stars to rule over the night,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;

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who made the great lights(A)
His love endures forever.
the sun to govern(B) the day,
His love endures forever.
the moon and stars to govern the night;
His love endures forever.

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When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
    the moon and the stars that you have established;(A)
what are humans that you are mindful of them,
    mortals[a] that you care for them?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.4 Heb son of man

When I consider your heavens,(A)
    the work of your fingers,(B)
the moon and the stars,(C)
    which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?

15 The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.

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15 The sun and moon will be darkened,
    and the stars no longer shine.(A)

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Thus says the Lord:

Do not learn the way of the nations
    or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens,
    for the nations are dismayed at them.(A)

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This is what the Lord says:

“Do not learn the ways of the nations(A)
    or be terrified by signs(B) in the heavens,
    though the nations are terrified by them.

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Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
    at the full moon, on our festal day.(A)

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Sound the ram’s horn(A) at the New Moon,(B)
    and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;

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