(A)Let them praise the name of the Lord!
    For (B)he commanded and they were created.

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11 (A)“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
    to receive glory and honor and power,
for (B)you created all things,
    and (C)by your will they existed and were created.”

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And God said, (A)“Let there be an expanse[a] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:6 Or a canopy; also verses 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, 20

By (A)the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
    and by (B)the breath of his mouth all (C)their host.
He gathers the waters of the sea as (D)a heap;
    he (E)puts the deeps in storehouses.

Let all the earth fear the Lord;
    let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
For (F)he spoke, and it came to be;
    he commanded, and it stood firm.

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The Creation of the World

In the (A)beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was (B)without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

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(A)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
(B)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
(C)the Lord is his name.

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11 Thus shall you say to them: (A)“The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth (B)shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”[a]

12 (C)It is he who (D)made the earth by his power,
    (E)who established the world by his wisdom,
    and (F)by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
13 (G)When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
    (H)and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
(I)He makes lightning (J)for the rain,
    (K)and he brings forth the wind (L)from his storehouses.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 10:11 This verse is in Aramaic

The sea is his, for (A)he made it,
    and his hands formed (B)the dry land.

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