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³By faith, we understand the world to be fashioned by the Word of God, so that the visible might be made by the invisible.

¹⁹He has made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its setting.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

⁴Though you have been lifted high like an eagle, and though you have placed your nest among the stars, from there I will pull you down, says the Lord.

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

¹⁴Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years. ¹⁵Let them shine in the firmament of heaven and illuminate the earth.” And so it became. 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. ¹⁷And he set them in the firmament of heaven, to give light over all the earth, ¹⁸and to rule over the day as well as the night, and to divide light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

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.

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.

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

¹⁵Let them shine in the firmament of heaven and illuminate the earth.” And so it became.

¹⁹And I will bestow wonders in heaven above, and signs on earth below: blood and fire and the vapor of smoke. ²⁰The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord arrives.

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? ³³Do you know the order of heaven, and can you explain its rules here on the earth?

¹²I made the earth, and I created man upon it. My hand stretched out the heavens, and I have commanded all their hosts.

³⁵Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun as the light of the day, who puts the moon and the stars in order as the light of the night, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar: the Lord of hosts is his name. ³⁶If these laws fail in my sight, says the Lord, then the offspring of Israel will also fail, so that they will not be a people in my sight for all time.”

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.