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32 He covers his hands with the lightning
    and commands it to strike the mark.(A)

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He covers the heavens with clouds,
    prepares rain for the earth,
    makes grass grow on the hills.(A)
He gives to the animals their food
    and to the young ravens when they cry.(B)

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20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and no small tempest raged, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

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fire and hail, snow and frost,
    stormy wind fulfilling his command!(A)

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He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth;
    he makes lightnings for the rain
    and brings out the wind from his storehouses.(A)

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11 He made darkness his covering around him,
    his canopy thick clouds dark with water.(A)

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15 Do you know how God lays his command upon them
    and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

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12 They turn round and round by his guidance
    to accomplish all that he commands them
    on the face of the habitable world.(A)

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He covers the face of the full moon
    and spreads over it his cloud.(A)

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The Ninth Plague: Darkness

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”(A) 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was dense darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.(B) 23 People could not see one another, and for three days they could not move from where they were, but all the Israelites had light where they lived.

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