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Bible Verses About Firmament

This collection includes 50 passages about Firmament. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

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And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

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The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

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And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

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And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

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He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

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And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

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Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

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And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

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Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

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By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

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The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

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While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

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The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

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I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

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Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

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Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

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He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

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And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

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Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

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I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

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And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

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Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

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For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;

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When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

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Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

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The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

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And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

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For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

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Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

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When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

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