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

²⁴ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: `I `am' Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth -- who `is' with Me?

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

⁸ And he maketh the laver of brass, and its base of brass, with the looking-glasses of the women assembling, who have assembled at the opening of the tent of meeting.

²² He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants `are' as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

¹² Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?

²⁷ In His preparing the heavens I `am' there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

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

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

⁵ They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created.

⁶ And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.

⁸ Stretching out the heavens by Himself, And treading on the heights of the sea,

⁹ Making Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, And the inner chambers of the south.

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

⁷ And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which `are' under the expanse, and the waters which `are' above the expanse: and it is so.

⁸ And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.