Job 38:33
Hebrew Text— Job 38:33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
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and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
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.
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;
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”
Let them praise Yahweh’s name, for he commanded, and they were created.
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.
“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.
The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:
“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;
Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
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.
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.
He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
the sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;
He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,
for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
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.’
Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
“As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.
The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
“This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.