¹ > The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

¹⁹ because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

²⁰ For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

⁶ The heavens shall declare his righteousness, For God himself is judge. Selah.

³ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

¹⁴ God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.

³ Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

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

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

² Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!

³ Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; But the earth has he given to the children of men.

⁶ By Yahweh's word the heavens were made; All their host by the breath of his mouth.

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.

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 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

²⁴ Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

²⁵ To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.

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.

¹¹ Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

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: