Psalms 136:6

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.

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.

“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,

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

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

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

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

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.”

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

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;

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.

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.’

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.

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

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?”

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

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

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.

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.

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.

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;

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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,

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

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.”

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

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

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,

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:

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: