Isaiah 40:12

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

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.

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.