⁷ He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.

⁸ Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea;

¹ In the beginning God{After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.} created the heavens and the earth.

² Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

² He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

³ He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

⁴ He makes his messengers{or, angels} winds; His servants flames of fire.

⁵ He laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved forever.

²² [It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;

²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth existed.

²⁴ When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.

²⁵ Before the mountains were settled in place, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

²⁶ While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there; When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

⁵ Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:

² For he has founded it on the seas, And established it on the floods.