שָׁמַיִם

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

…so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.

For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

…who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

…the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.

The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

…it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.

Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:

And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.

For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.

…the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.