Job 26:7
Hebrew Text— Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
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For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
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.
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.
Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
“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.
For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;
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,
Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
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.
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.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.
Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
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.
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:
This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
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.
Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?
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.
“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.
In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
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.
Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
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;
“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”
He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
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:
and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:
God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.