mountains
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4For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his. 5For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
10For the mountains will be moved, and the hills will tremble. But my mercy will not depart from you, and the covenant of my peace will not be shaken, said the Lord, who has compassion on you.
20But this kind is not cast out, except through prayer and fasting.”
5The mountains flowed like wax before the face of the Lord, before the face of the Lord of all the earth.
23Amen I say to you, that whoever will say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and who will not have hesitated in his heart, but will have believed: then whatever he has said be done, it shall be done for him.
5You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age. 6The abyss, like a garment, is its clothing. The waters will remain standing above the mountains. 7At your rebuke, they will flee. At the voice of your thunder, they will dread. 8The mountains ascend, and the plains descend, to the place which you have founded for them. 9You have set a limit that they will not cross. And they will not return to cover the earth.
1A Canticle in steps. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains; from thence help will come to me.
7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger and the preacher of peace! Announcing good and preaching peace, they are saying to Zion, “Your God will reign!”
23And having dismissed the multitude, he ascended alone onto a mountain to pray. And when evening arrived, he was alone there.
20And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
2And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing.
7What are you, great mountain, in the sight of Zerubbabel? You are among the plains. And he will lead out the primary stone, and he will give equal grace to its grace.
2And in the last days, the mountain of the house of the Lord will be prepared at the summit of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills, and all the nations shall flow to it.