¹¹ The pillars of the heavens quake,^(A)
    aghast at his rebuke.

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?^(A)
    Tell me, if you understand.^(B)
5 Who marked off its dimensions?^(C) Surely you know!
    Who stretched a measuring line^(D) across it?
⁶ On what were its footings set,^(E)
    or who laid its cornerstone^(F)—

¹³ So the sun stood still,^(A)
    and the moon stopped,
    till the nation avenged itself on^[a] its enemies,

³ When the earth and all its people quake,^(A)
    it is I who hold its pillars^(B) firm.^[a]

⁵ He set the earth^(A) on its foundations;^(B)
    it can never be moved.

²⁹ when he gave the sea its boundary^(A)
    so the waters would not overstep his command,^(B)
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.^(C)

⁵ The sun rises and the sun sets,
    and hurries back to where it rises.^(A)

⁸ He raises^(A) the poor^(B) from the dust^(C)
    and lifts the needy^(D) from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
    and has them inherit a throne of honor.^(E)

“For the foundations^(F) of the earth are the Lord’s;
    on them he has set the world.