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⁸The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

³¹Will you have the strength to join together the sparkling stars of the Pleiades, or are you able to disperse the circling of Arcturus?

⁹He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.

³¹Will you have the strength to join together the sparkling stars of the Pleiades, or are you able to disperse the circling of Arcturus? ³²Can you bring forth the morning star, in its time, and make the evening star rise over the sons of the earth?

⁴He numbers the multitude of the stars, and he calls them all by their names.

¹And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars. ²And being with child, she cried out while giving birth, and she was suffering in order to give birth. ³And another sign was seen in heaven. And behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems. ⁴And his tail drew down a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman, who was about to give birth, so that, when she had brought forth, he might devour her son. ⁵And she brought forth a male child, who was soon to rule all the nations with an iron rod. And her son was taken up to God and to his throne. ⁶And the woman fled into solitude, where a place was being held ready by God, so that they might pasture her in that place for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things. He leads forth their army by number, and he calls them all by name. Because of the fullness of his strength and robustness and virtue, not one of them was left behind.

²O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens. ³Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger. ⁴For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded. ⁵What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him? ⁶You reduced him to a little less than the Angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, ⁷and you have set him over the works of your hands.

¹⁰For the stars of the heavens, in their splendor, will not display their light. The sun will be obscured at its rising, and the moon will not shine in her brightness.

³²Can you bring forth the morning star, in its time, and make the evening star rise over the sons of the earth?

⁴For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.