שָׁמַיִם

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.

But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

“But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.

“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.