Psalms 148:3

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

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.

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.

Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,

They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;

They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

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.’

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,

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

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

(and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

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

Let them praise Yahweh’s name, for he commanded, and they were created.

For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”

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:

You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.

and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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.

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

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.

When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.

Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands;

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

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

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

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.

Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.

They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.

Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh.

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,

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.

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

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.

“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;

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.

These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

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

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

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.

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

to him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:

the sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

“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;

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

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;

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.