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33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
    Can you establish their rule on the earth?(A)

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35 Thus says the Lord,
who gives the sun for light by day
    and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
    the Lord of hosts is his name:(A)
36 If this fixed order were ever to cease
    from my presence, says the Lord,
then also the offspring of Israel would cease
    to be a nation before me forever.(B)

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25 Thus says the Lord: Only if I had not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth(A)

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He established them forever and ever;
    he fixed their bounds, which cannot be passed.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 148.6 Or he set a law that cannot pass away

90 Your faithfulness endures to all generations;
    you have established the earth, and it stands fast.(A)
91 By your appointment they stand today,
    for all things are your servants.(B)

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12 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began
    and caused the dawn to know its place,(A)
13 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
    and the wicked be shaken out of it?(B)

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22 As long as the earth endures,
    seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night
    shall not cease.”(A)

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16 God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.(A)

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