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12 On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the Lord in front of all the people of Israel. He said,

“Let the sun stand still over Gibeon,
    and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.”

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12 On the day the Lord gave the Amorites(A) over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel:

“Sun, stand still over Gibeon,
    and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.(B)

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11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky
    as your brilliant arrows flew
    and your glittering spear flashed.

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11 Sun and moon stood still(A) in the heavens
    at the glint of your flying arrows,(B)
    at the lightning(C) of your flashing spear.

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I will cause the sun’s shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial[a] of Ahaz!’” So the shadow on the sundial moved backward ten steps.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:8 Hebrew the steps.

I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.(A)

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20 Your sun will never set;
    your moon will not go down.
For the Lord will be your everlasting light.
    Your days of mourning will come to an end.

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20 Your sun(A) will never set again,
    and your moon will wane no more;
the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your days of sorrow(B) will end.

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21 The Lord will come as he did against the Philistines at Mount Perazim
    and against the Amorites at Gibeon.
He will come to do a strange thing;
    he will come to do an unusual deed:

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21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,(A)
    he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon(B)
to do his work,(C) his strange work,
    and perform his task, his alien task.

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Praise him, sun and moon!
    Praise him, all you twinkling stars!

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Praise him, sun(A) and moon;
    praise him, all you shining stars.

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Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,
    and their words to all the world.

God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.

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Yet their voice[a] goes out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.(A)
In the heavens God has pitched a tent(B) for the sun.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 19:4 Septuagint, Jerome and Syriac; Hebrew measuring line

26 “Have I looked at the sun shining in the skies,
    or the moon walking down its silver pathway,
27 and been secretly enticed in my heart
    to throw kisses at them in worship?

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26 if I have regarded the sun(A) in its radiance
    or the moon(B) moving in splendor,
27 so that my heart was secretly enticed(C)
    and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,(D)

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19 And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the forces of heaven—don’t be seduced into worshiping them. The Lord your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.

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19 And when you look up to the sky and see the sun,(A) the moon and the stars(B)—all the heavenly array(C)—do not be enticed(D) into bowing down to them and worshiping(E) things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

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13 Be silent before the Lord, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling.”

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13 Be still(A) before the Lord, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.(B)

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20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple.
    Let all the earth be silent before him.”

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20 The Lord is in his holy temple;(A)
    let all the earth be silent(B) before him.

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If he commands it, the sun won’t rise
    and the stars won’t shine.

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He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;(A)
    he seals off the light of the stars.(B)

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42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

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42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon,(A) Ithlah,

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