Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name: “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the Lord, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.”
Thus says the Lord: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.
Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast. By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.
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