He bowed the heavens also, and came down With darkness under His feet.

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens.

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”

But David did not take the number of those twenty years old and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.

But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a temple, except to burn sacrifice before Him?

“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,

And I said: “O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’

You alone are the Lord; You have made heaven, The heaven of heavens, with all their host, The earth and everything on it, The seas and all that is in them, And You preserve them all. The host of heaven worships You.

He alone spreads out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea;

So man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, They will not awake Nor be roused from their sleep.

If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight,

Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens, And his head reaches to the clouds,

The heavens will reveal his iniquity, And the earth will rise up against him.

By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

For He looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole heavens,

Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds— They are higher than you.

Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision.

The Glory of the Lord in Creation

To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

He bowed the heavens also, and came down With darkness under His feet.