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

⁸ By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

¹ At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

² And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

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

³ The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

⁴ He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.

⁵ He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

²² It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

²³ From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

²⁴ When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

²⁵ Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

²⁶ When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

²⁷ When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

²⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

⁵ God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

² For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.