He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars(A)—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[a] be.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:5 Or seed

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

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12 “Is not God in the heights of heaven?(A)
    And see how lofty are the highest stars!

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12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

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“Dominion and awe belong to God;(A)
    he establishes order in the heights of heaven.(B)

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Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

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10 For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
    your faithfulness reaches to the skies.(A)

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10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

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“As the heavens are higher than the earth,(A)
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.(B)

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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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