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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.
5You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age.
8Behold, I will cause the shadow of the lines, which has now descended on the sundial of Ahaz, to move in reverse for ten lines.” And so, the sun moved backward by ten lines, through the degrees by which it had descended.
13And the sun and the moon stood still, until the people had avenged themselves of their enemies. Has this not been written in the book of the just? And so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and it did not hurry to its rest for the space of one day.
7He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.
1The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. In the time before the Sabbath, when the earth was founded. The Lord has reigned. He has been clothed with beauty. The Lord has been clothed with strength, and he has girded himself. Yet he has also confirmed the world, which will not be moved.
10He has set limits around the waters, until light and darkness shall reach their limit.
30Let all the earth be moved before his face. For he founded the globe immoveable.
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.”
5The sun rises and sets; it returns to its place, and from there, being born again,
1The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. In the time before the Sabbath, when the earth was founded. The Lord has reigned. He has been clothed with beauty. The Lord has been clothed with strength, and he has girded himself. Yet he has also confirmed the world, which will not be moved. 2My throne is prepared from of old. You are from everlasting. 3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, 4before the noise of many waters. Wondrous are the surges of the sea; wondrous is the Lord on high. 5Your testimonies have been made exceedingly trustworthy. Sanctity befits your house, O Lord, with length of days.