Genesis 1:6
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6 And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”(A)
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Jeremiah 51:15
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15 It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world by his wisdom
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.(A)
Psalm 104:2
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2 wrapped in light as with a garment.
You stretch out the heavens like a tent;(A)
Job 37:18
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18 Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
hard as a molten mirror?(A)
Psalm 33:6
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6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made
and all their host by the breath of his mouth.(A)
Job 26:7-8
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7 He stretches out Zaphon[a] over the void
and hangs the earth upon nothing.(A)
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not torn open by them.(B)
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- 26.7 Or the North
Psalm 33:9
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9 for he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.(A)
Jeremiah 10:12-13
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12 It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world by his wisdom
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.(A)
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.(B)
Psalm 136:5-6
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5 who by understanding made the heavens,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)
6 who spread out the earth on the waters,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(B)
Zechariah 12:1
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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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Psalm 19:1
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Psalm 19
God’s Glory in Creation and the Law
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
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- 19.1 Or dome
Genesis 7:11-12
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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.(A) 12 The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.(B)
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Genesis 1:20
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20 And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.”
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Ecclesiastes 11:3
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3 When clouds are full,
they empty rain on the earth;
whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
Psalm 148:4
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4 Praise him, you highest heavens
and you waters above the heavens!(A)
Job 38:22-26
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22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,(A)
23 which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
for the day of battle and war?(B)
24 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed
or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?(C)
25 “Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain
and a way for the thunderbolt,(D)
26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives,
on the desert, which is empty of human life,(E)
Job 37:11
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11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.(A)
Job 26:13
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13 By his wind the heavens were made fair;
his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.(A)
Genesis 1:14
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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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Jeremiah 10:10
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10 But the Lord is the true God;
he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
and the nations cannot endure his indignation.[a](A)
Psalm 150:1
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