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The Earth Orbiting The Sun
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He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
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;
He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
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 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 midst of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.
He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t 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, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; — read the full passage →
The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and I have commanded all their army.
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →
Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!” — read the full passage →
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts 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 Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!” — read the full passage →
Now 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 →
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →
The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
But immediately after the oppression 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;
For thus says 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: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
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;
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in the day of his fierce anger.
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,
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.
For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
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, — read the full passage →
Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
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.
that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
An oracle. 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:
It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will 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 shake the wicked out of it?
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “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 on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great. — read the full passage →
He 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:
Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble. — read the full passage →
Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
and he will come out 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.
I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →
Thus says Yahweh, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?
He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.
For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →
Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among 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 all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation. — read the full passage →
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →
For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →
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.
when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →
His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.
Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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