⁶ And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

¹⁵ He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:

² You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

¹⁸ Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

⁶ By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

⁷ By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

⁸ By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

⁹ For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

⁵ To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁶ To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

¹² He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

¹³ At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

¹ The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

¹⁰ But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

¹¹ The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

²² Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

²³ Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

²⁴ Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

²⁵ By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

²⁶ Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

⁴ Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.

³ If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years: