¹² “Is not God in the height of heaven?
And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!

^(A)“Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?
And where is the place of My rest?

² Do not be ^(A)rash with your mouth,
And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God.
For God is in heaven, and you on earth;
Therefore let your words ^(B)be few.

³ When I ^(A)consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
^4 (B)What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You ^(C)visit^[a] him?

¹⁵ For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, ^(A)whose name is Holy:
^(B)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
^(C)With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
^(D)To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

^3 (A)But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.

¹⁶ The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s;
But the earth He has given to the children of men.