¹⁸ he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror.
    Can you do that?

²⁴ This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer and Creator:
“I am the Lord, who made all things.
    I alone stretched out the heavens.
Who was with me
    when I made the earth?

²     You are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

²² God sits above the circle of the earth.
    The people below seem like grasshoppers to him!
He spreads out the heavens like a curtain
    and makes his tent from them.

²⁷ I was there when he established the heavens,
    when he drew the horizon on the oceans.

Praise God in his sanctuary;
    praise him in his mighty heaven!

⁴ Praise him, skies above!
    Praise him, vapors high above the clouds!
⁵ Let every created thing give praise to the Lord,
    for he issued his command, and they came into being.
⁶ He set them in place forever and ever.
    His decree will never be revoked.

⁸ He alone has spread out the heavens
    and marches on the waves of the sea.
⁹ He made all the stars—the Bear and Orion,
    the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.