The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes.

The Lord is exalted over all the nations; his splendor reaches beyond the sky.

The heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.

For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:

I looked and saw that there were no more people, and that all the birds in the sky had flown away.

Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.

You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, along with all their multitude of stars, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You impart life to them all, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.

The people who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

The earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the sky trembled. They heaved because he was angry.

Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.