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The setting sun sets fire to the hilltops, like a metal furnace glowing from the heat. It sends out fiery rays, blinding the eyes with its brightness.
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The sun, when it appears, proclaims as it rises how marvelous a thing it is, made by the Most High.
3
At noon it dries up the land; no one can stand its blazing heat.
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The setting sun sets fire to the hilltops, like a metal furnace glowing from the heat. It sends out fiery rays, blinding the eyes with its brightness.
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The Lord, who made it, is great; it speeds on its way at his command.
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There is also the moon, marking the passage of time, an eternal sign of the changing seasons.
Footnotes 1
[a].
[Hebrew] The setting . . . heat; [Greek] A man at a furnace works with scorching heat, but the sun burns the hills three times as much.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.