outer space

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?

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.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

²The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.

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

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

¹²And the fourth Angel sounded the trumpet. And a third part of the sun, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars were struck, in such a way that a third part of them was obscured. And a third part of the day did not shine, and similarly the night.

¹⁶And God made two great lights: a greater light, to rule over the day, and a lesser light, to rule over the night, along with the stars.

²The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands. ³Day proclaims the word to day, and night to night imparts knowledge. ⁴There are no speeches or conversations, where their voices are not being heard. ⁵Their sound has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. ⁶He has placed his tabernacle in the sun, and he is like a bridegroom coming out of his bedroom. He has exulted like a giant running along the way; ⁷his departure is from the summit of heaven. And his course reaches all the way to its summit. Neither is there anyone who can hide himself from his heat.

¹To David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are exceedingly great. You have clothed yourself with confession and beauty; ²you are dressed with light like a garment, while you stretch out heaven like a tent. ³You cover its heights with water. You set the clouds as your stairs. You walk upon the wings of the winds. ⁴You make your Angels a breath of life, and your ministers a burning fire. 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.

⁷He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.

²²He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.

²I know a man in Christ, who, more than fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know: God knows), was enraptured to the third heaven.

²⁴The heaven of heaven is for the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.