⁶ And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

¹⁵ The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,

² Covering himself `with' light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

¹⁸ Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!

⁶ By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

⁷ Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

⁸ Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.

⁹ For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

⁵ To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age `is' His kindness.

⁶ To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age `is' His kindness.

¹² The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,

¹³ At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters `is' in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And bringeth out wind from His treasures.

¹ The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.

¹ To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. The heavens `are' recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse `is' declaring.

¹⁰ And Jehovah `is' a God of truth, He `is' a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.

²⁰ And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

¹² and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.

¹¹ Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

²² Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?

²³ That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

²⁴ Where `is' this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

²⁵ Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

²⁶ To cause `it' to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.

⁴ Praise ye Him, heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.

¹ Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength.

³ If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty `themselves'; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is.

¹⁴ And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,