then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

Dogs will eat the members of Baasha’s family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

As for Ahab’s family, dogs will eat the ones who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

Just before the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

The king responded, “What is it you are seeking?” Then I quickly prayed to the God of heaven

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

For he looks to the ends of the earth and observes everything under the heavens.

(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

For the music director; a psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork.

It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.

Rise up above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth!

They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the sky! Praise him in the heavens!

They come from a distant land, from the horizon. It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, coming to destroy the whole earth.

“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.