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The Earth Orbiting The Sun
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He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.
behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;
Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith: The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith: The world also is established, that it cannot be moved. — read the full passage →
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.
Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved: He will judge the peoples with equity.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: — read the full passage →
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork.
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.
But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.
That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;
The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork. — read the full passage →
Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. — read the full passage →
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s, And he hath set the world upon them.
Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. — read the full passage →
Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it (as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king), and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; — read the full passage →
That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;
For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork. — read the full passage →
and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind.
But 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 heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. [Selah
When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;
and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb: I am Jehovah, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth (who is with me?);
Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he madethe stars also.
for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;
Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, — read the full passage →
Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.
that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Jehovah, and there is none else.
I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
They that trust in Jehovah Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven;
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
And when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:
And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height thereof was great. — read the full passage →
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens.
Praise ye him, sun and moon: Praise him, all ye stars of light.
That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble; — read the full passage →
Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
And youdid he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, — read the full passage →
Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?
He will surely wind thee round and round, and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord’s house.
For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water; — read the full passage →
Jehovah reigneth; let the peoples tremble: He sitteth above the cherubim; let the earth be moved.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
Give ear to my words, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation. — read the full passage →
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →
For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, — read the full passage →
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.
When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same Jehovah’s name is to be praised.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou sofar from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →
His going forth is from the end of the heavens, And his circuit unto the ends of it; And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Jehovah; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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