<p class="lamhebrew">&#1511; (<i>Qofi>)p> <p class="poetry">Those who pursued us were swifterp> <p class="poetry">than eagles<n id="1" /> in the sky.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They chased us over the mountains;p> <p class="poetry">they ambushed us in the wilderness.p>

On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals<n id="1" /> will walk<n id="2" /> on its branches.

It grew so big it reached the army<n id="1" /> of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars<n id="2" /> to the ground, where it trampled them.

<p class="poetry">I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying,p> <p class="poetry">I will bring them down like birds in the sky;p> <p class="poetry">I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.p>

<p class="poetry">The earth quakes<n id="1" /> before them;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the sky reverberates.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The sun and the moon grow dark;p> <p class="poetry">the stars refuse to shine.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will produce portents both in the sky<n id="1" /> and on the earth &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">blood, fire, and columns of smoke.p>

<p class="poetry">Even if they could dig down into the netherworld,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my hand would pull them up from there.p> <p class="poetry">Even if they could climb up to heaven,p> <p class="poetry">I would drag them down from there.p>

<p class="poetry">I will remove<n id="1" /> those who worship the stars in the sky from their rooftops,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">those who swear allegiance to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" /> while taking oaths in the name of<n id="4" /> their &#8216;king,&#8217;<n id="5" />p>

This is why the sky<n id="1" /> has held back its dew and the earth its produce.<n id="2" />

Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah: &#8216;I am ready<n id="1" /> to shake the sky<n id="2" /> and the earth.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind<n id="1" /> on the earth, and ask<n id="2" /> from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

<p class="bodytext">Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them,<n id="1" /> she did not allow the birds of the air to feed<n id="2" /> on them by day, nor the wild animals<n id="3" /> by night.

Elijah replied to the captain,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!&#8221; Fire then came down<n id="2" /> from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.p>

Elijah replied to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!&#8221; Fire from God<n id="2" /> came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.p>

<p class="poetry">Look up at the sky!p> <p class="poetry">Look at the earth below!p> <p class="poetry">For the sky will dissipate<n id="1" /> like smoke,p> <p class="poetry">and the earth will wear out like clothes;p> <p class="poetry">its residents will die like gnats.p> <p class="poetry">But the deliverance I give<n id="2" /> is permanent;p> <p class="poetry">the vindication I provide<n id="3" /> will not disappear.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place<n id="1" /> and let dry ground appear.&#8221;<n id="2" /> It was so.

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let there be lights<n id="1" /> in the expanse<n id="2" /> of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs<n id="3" /> to indicate seasons and days and years,

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the water swarm with swarms<n id="1" /> of living creatures and let birds fly<n id="2" /> above the earth across the expanse of the sky.&#8221;

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam<n id="1" /> no companion who corresponded to him was found.<n id="2" />

and also seven<n id="1" /> of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female,<n id="2" /> to preserve their offspring<n id="3" /> on the face of the earth.