⁷ He spreads out the northern skies^(A) over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.^(B)

⁸ He alone stretches out the heavens^(A)
    and treads on the waves of the sea.^(B)

²² He sits enthroned^(A) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.^(B)
He stretches out the heavens^(C) like a canopy,^(D)
    and spreads them out like a tent^(E) to live in.^(F)

² The Lord wraps^(A) himself in light^(B) as with a garment;
    he stretches^(C) out the heavens^(D) like a tent^(E)
3     and lays the beams^(F) of his upper chambers on their waters.^(G)
He makes the clouds^(H) his chariot^(I)
    and rides on the wings of the wind.^(J)
4 He makes winds his messengers,^[a](K)
    flames of fire^(L) his servants.

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

⁵ 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:

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)

²³ I was formed long ages ago,
    at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
²⁴ When there were no watery depths, I was given birth,
    when there were no springs overflowing with water;^(A)
25 before the mountains were settled in place,^(B)
    before the hills, I was given birth,^(C)
26 before he made the world or its fields
    or any of the dust of the earth.^(D)
27 I was there when he set the heavens in place,^(E)
    when he marked out the horizon^(F) on the face of the deep,