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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.

⁵The sun rises and sets; it returns to its place, and from there, being born again,

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord from the heavens. Praise him on the heights. ²Praise him, all his Angels. Praise him, all his hosts. ³Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all stars and light. ⁴Praise him, heavens of the heavens. And let all the waters that are above the heavens ⁵praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they became. He commanded, and they were created. ⁶He has stationed them in eternity, and for age after age. He has established a precept, and it will not pass away.

¹³You have failed in the multitude of your plans! Let the seers stand and save you, those who were contemplating the stars, and figuring the months, so that from these they might announce to you the things to come. ¹⁴Behold, they have become like stubble. Fire has consumed them. They will not free themselves from the power of the flames. These are not coals by which they may be warmed, nor is this a fire which they may sit beside.

¹A Psalm according to Solomon. ²Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment. ³Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice. ⁴He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser. ⁵And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation. ⁶He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.

⁵You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age.

¹⁰Then the day of the Lord shall arrive like a thief. On that day, the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and truly the elements shall be dissolved with heat; then the earth, and the works that are within it, shall be completely burned up.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. ²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. ³And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. ⁵And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day. ⁶God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

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.

²But unto you, who fear my name, the Sun of justice will arise, and health will be in his wings. And you will go forth and leap like the calves of the herd.