- Genesis 1:6-8 (NIV)
“And God said, ‘Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.’ So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault ‘sky.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.”
- Genesis 1:14-15 (NIV)
“And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.’ And it was so.”
- Genesis 9:13 (NIV)
“I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.”
- Exodus 9:22-23 (NIV)
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.’ When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt…”
- Deuteronomy 4:19 (NIV)
“And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.”
- Deuteronomy 11:11 (NIV)
“But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.”
- Deuteronomy 33:26 (NIV)
“‘There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.’”
- 2 Samuel 22:10 (NIV)
“He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet.”
- Job 35:5 (NIV)
“Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.”
- Psalm 8:3-4 (NIV)
“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?”
- Psalm 19:1 (NIV)
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
- Psalm 33:6 (NIV)
“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.”
- Psalm 57:10 (NIV)
“For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.”
- Psalm 89:5 (NIV)
“The heavens praise your wonders, Lord, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.”
- Psalm 102:25 (NIV)
“In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.”
- Psalm 104:2 (NIV)
“The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent…”
- Psalm 148:1-4 (NIV)
“Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights above. Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his heavenly hosts. Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars. Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies.”
- Isaiah 13:10 (NIV)
“The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.”
- Isaiah 40:22 (NIV)
“He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.”
- Isaiah 45:8 (NIV)
“You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the Lord, have created it.”
- Isaiah 64:1 (NIV)
“Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!”
- Jeremiah 4:23 (NIV)
“I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.”
- Ezekiel 1:1 (NIV)
“In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.”
- Joel 2:10 (NIV)
“Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.”
- Joel 3:15 (NIV)
“The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.”
- Amos 5:8 (NIV)
“He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the Lord is his name.”
- Jonah 1:9 (NIV)
“He answered, ‘I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.’”
- Zechariah 5:9 (NIV)
“Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.”
- Matthew 24:29 (NIV)
“Immediately after the distress of those days ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’”
- Acts 2:19-20 (NIV)
“I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.”