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

²⁴ The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

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

⁸ And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.

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.

¹² In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

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

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

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

⁵ Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.

⁶ He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.

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

⁹ Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:

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

⁷ And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

⁸ And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.