²     You are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

⁶ The Lord merely spoke,
    and the heavens were created.
He breathed the word,
    and all the stars were born.

¹⁸ he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror.
    Can you do that?

⁷ God stretches the northern sky over empty space
    and hangs the earth on nothing.
⁸ He wraps the rain in his thick clouds,
    and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.

⁹ For when he spoke, the world began!
    It appeared at his command.

¹² But the Lord made the earth by his power,
    and he preserves it by his wisdom.
With his own understanding
    he stretched out the heavens.
¹³ When he speaks in the thunder,
    the heavens roar with rain.
He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.
    He sends the lightning with the rain
    and releases the wind from his storehouses.

⁵ Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully.
His faithful love endures forever.
⁶ Give thanks to him who placed the earth among the waters.
His faithful love endures forever.