⁶ To him who spread out the earth above the waters; For his loving kindness endures forever:

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

¹² He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

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?);

⁹ God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.

⁵ For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

⁶ by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

⁷ But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹ An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

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:

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;

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.

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

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