Job 37:18
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can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
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Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens.