stars
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4He numbers the multitude of the stars, and he calls them all by their names.
3But those who have taught will shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who instruct many towards justice, like the stars for unending eternity.
4For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.
10He struck Egypt along with their first-born, for his mercy is eternal.
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.
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.
13And the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, just as when a fig tree, shaken by a great wind, drops its immature figs.
19Otherwise, perhaps lifting up your eyes to heaven, you might look upon the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error, you might adore and worship these things, which the Lord your God created for the service of all the nations, which are under heaven.
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?
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.
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.
7when the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful noise?
5And he brought him outside, and he said to him, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring be.”
41One has the brightness of the sun, another the brightness of the moon, and another the brightness of the stars. For even star differs from star in brightness.