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

² For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.

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,

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?

⁹ And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

⁵ for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

⁶ through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

⁷ and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

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.

⁵ Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.

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.

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

³ Who is laying the beam of His upper chambers in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on wings of wind,

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

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