Astronomy

one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.

For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

The maker of Kimah and Kesil, And the turner to morning of death-shade, And day <FI>as<Fi> night He hath made dark, Who is calling to the waters of the sea, And poureth them on the face of the earth, Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> His name;

Appointing the number of the stars, To all them He giveth names.

Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. The heavens <FI>are<Fi> recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse <FI>is<Fi> declaring.

He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants <FI>are<Fi> as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open? — read the full passage →

For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.

`And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land <FI>is<Fi> distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

Lift up on high your eyes, And see--who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And <FI>he is<Fi> strong in power) not one is lacking.

Making Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, And the inner chambers of the south.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee!

And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;

`And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord--the great and illustrious;

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. The heavens <FI>are<Fi> recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse <FI>is<Fi> declaring. — read the full passage →

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.

As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured, So I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites My ministers.'

and the sun standeth still, and the moon hath stood--till the nation taketh vengeance <FI>on<Fi> its enemies; is it not written on the Book of the Upright, `and the sun standeth in the midst of the heavens, and hath not hasted to go in--as a perfect day?'

and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving the sun for a light by day, The statutes of moon and stars for a light by night, Quieting the sea when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name: — read the full passage →

Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth doth shake from its place, In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, And in a day of the heat of his anger.

By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.

A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

From the heavens they fought: The stars from their highways fought with Sisera.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, — read the full passage →

and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath--blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke,

And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,

And I have given wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, Blood and fire, and columns of smoke. — read the full passage →

And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared to destroy. And where <FI>is<Fi> the fury of the oppressor?

I made earth, and man on it prepared, I--My hands stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.

Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.

And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.

Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds--strong as a hard mirror!

Who is shaking earth from its place, And its pillars move themselves. — read the full passage →

that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which <FI>is<Fi> on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

And I saw the heaven having been opened, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness doth he judge and war, — read the full passage →

And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars,

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, — read the full passage →

and it will come--the day of the Lord--as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land till the ninth hour, — read the full passage →

and the stars of the heaven shall be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

`But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, — read the full passage →

And they, having heard the king, departed, and lo, the star, that they did see in the east, did go before them, till, having come, it stood over where the child was.

The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.

Sun--moon--hath stood--a habitation, At the light thine arrows go on, At the brightness, the glittering of thy spear.

The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,

To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness. — read the full passage →

Covering himself <FI>with<Fi> light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform--to give to Him glory.

`But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands <FI>are<Fi> the heavens. — read the full passage →

To him who is riding on the heavens of the heavens of old, Lo, He giveth with His voice a strong voice.

And the fourth messenger did pour out his vial upon the sun, and there was given to him to scorch men with fire,

and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss, — read the full passage →

All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand together.

Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: `I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth--who <FI>is<Fi> with Me?

Where <FI>is<Fi> this--the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where <FI>is<Fi> this--its place? — read the full passage →

`And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.

wherefore, also from one were begotten--and that of one who had become dead--as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that <FI>is<Fi> by the sea-shore--the innumerable.

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,

But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish. — read the full passage →

Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving the sun for a light by day, The statutes of moon and stars for a light by night, Quieting the sea when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name:

Thus said Jehovah: Unto the way of the nations accustom not yourselves, And by the signs of the heavens be not affrighted, For the nations are affrighted by them.

And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? --For the living unto the dead!

Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them, — read the full passage →

And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary--and the stars--for the rule of the night;

and I will give to him the morning star.

and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath--blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke, — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant <FI>is<Fi> not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed--

Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee! — read the full passage →

Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee! — read the full passage →

Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?

`And the person who turneth unto those having familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I have even set My face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.

`Ye do not eat with the blood; ye do not enchant, nor observe clouds.

and it doth great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and the sun was darkened, and the vail of the sanctuary was rent in the midst,

`I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left; — read the full passage →

Hear ye the word, O house of Israel, That Jehovah hath spoken for you. — read the full passage →

And confounded hath been the moon, And ashamed hath been the sun, For reigned hath Jehovah of Hosts In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And over-against His elders--honour!

He made the moon for seasons, The sun hath known his place of entrance.

Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,

And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.