⁶ On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

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

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

⁵ But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

¹⁶ For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

²² The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.

¹ The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.

²⁰ Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

²¹ In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

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:

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

⁸ Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

¹⁸ These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side,

¹⁹ With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.

²⁰ And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north,

²¹ With their forty silver bases, two under every board.

²² And six boards for the back of the House on the west,

²³ With two boards for the angles of the House at the back.

²⁴ The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles.

²⁵ So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board.

¹² Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;