26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:(A)
    Who created(B) all these?
He who brings out the starry host(C) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,(D)
    not one of them is missing.(E)

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16 For in him all things were created:(A) things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;(B) all things have been created through him and for him.(C) 17 He is before all things,(D) and in him all things hold together.

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17 “Ah, Sovereign Lord,(A) you have made the heavens and the earth(B) by your great power and outstretched arm.(C) Nothing is too hard(D) for you. 18 You show love(E) to thousands but bring the punishment for the parents’ sins into the laps(F) of their children(G) after them. Great and mighty God,(H) whose name is the Lord Almighty,(I) 19 great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds.(J) Your eyes are open to the ways of all mankind;(K) you reward each person according to their conduct and as their deeds deserve.(L)

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Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
    look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,(A)
    the earth will wear out like a garment(B)
    and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation(C) will last forever,(D)
    my righteousness will never fail.(E)

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13 My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,(A)
    and my right hand spread out the heavens;(B)
when I summon them,
    they all stand up together.(C)

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11 The heavens are yours,(A) and yours also the earth;(B)
    you founded the world and all that is in it.(C)
12 You created the north and the south;
    Tabor(D) and Hermon(E) sing for joy(F) at your name.
13 Your arm is endowed with power;
    your hand is strong, your right hand exalted.(G)

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Jerusalem to Be Inhabited

24 “This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer,(A) who formed(B) you in the womb:(C)

I am the Lord,
    the Maker of all things,
    who stretches out the heavens,(D)
    who spreads out the earth(E) by myself,

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He determines the number of the stars(A)
    and calls them each by name.
Great is our Lord(B) and mighty in power;(C)
    his understanding has no limit.(D)

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I form the light and create darkness,(A)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;(B)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

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This is what God the Lord says—
the Creator of the heavens,(A) who stretches them out,
    who spreads out the earth(B) with all that springs from it,(C)
    who gives breath(D) to its people,
    and life to those who walk on it:

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16 Look in the scroll(A) of the Lord and read:

None of these will be missing,(B)
    not one will lack her mate.
For it is his mouth(C) that has given the order,(D)
    and his Spirit will gather them together.

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Psalm 19[a]

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

The heavens(A) declare(B) the glory of God;(C)
    the skies(D) proclaim the work of his hands.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 19:1 In Hebrew texts 19:1-14 is numbered 19:2-15.

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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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.(A)

By the seventh day(B) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.(C)

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11 “Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish(A) from the earth and from under the heavens.’”[a]

12 But God made(B) the earth(C) by his power;
    he founded the world by his wisdom(D)
    and stretched out the heavens(E) by his understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:11 The text of this verse is in Aramaic.

Praise him, sun(A) and moon;
    praise him, all you shining stars.
Praise him, you highest heavens(B)
    and you waters above the skies.(C)

Let them praise the name(D) of the Lord,
    for at his command(E) they were created,
and he established them for ever and ever—
    he issued a decree(F) that will never pass away.

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25 In the beginning(A) you laid the foundations of the earth,
    and the heavens(B) are the work of your hands.(C)

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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?

26 if I have regarded the sun(A) in its radiance
    or the moon(B) moving in splendor,
27 so that my heart was secretly enticed(C)
    and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,(D)
28 then these also would be sins to be judged,(E)
    for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.(F)

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