¹⁸ Can you, with him, spread out the sky, Which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

²⁴ Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who stretches forth the heavens alone; who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?);

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

⁸ He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.

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;

¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

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

¹ Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

⁴ Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.

⁵ Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded, and they were created.

⁶ He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

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

⁹ Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

⁶ God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

⁷ God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.

⁸ God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.