¹⁶ The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

⁷ To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁸ The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁹ The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

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:

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

¹⁷ And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

¹⁸ To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

⁴ And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

⁵ Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

³ When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

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.

² Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

³ There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.

⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

⁵ Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

¹⁹ He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

⁴⁵ So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.