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The shining stars make the night sky lovely, brilliant ornaments in the Lord's high heavens.
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They stay in the places assigned to them by the Holy One and never relax their dutiful watch.
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Look at the rainbow and praise its Creator! How magnificent, how radiant, its beauty!
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Like a bow bent by the hands of the Most High, it spans the horizon in a circle of glory.
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He commands, and snow begins to fall; lightning strikes to carry out his judgments.
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The storerooms of the sky are thrown open, and the clouds roll out like flying birds.
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With his power he forms great masses of clouds and shatters the ice into hailstones.
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He speaks, and thunder twists the earth in pain; the mountains are shaken by his strength. Whenever he wishes, the south wind blows, whirlwinds come, and windstorms from the north. He sends the snow fluttering down like birds, like locusts lighting on the ground.
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We marvel at its beautiful whiteness, and in fascination we watch it fall.
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He sprinkles frost over the ground like salt, and it freezes into thorny flowers of ice.