²² God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.^(A)
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth^(B)
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.^(C)

¹² I made the earth,
and created humans on it.
It was my hands that stretched out the heavens,^(A)
and I commanded everything in them.

¹³ But you have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth.^(A)
You are in constant dread all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor,
who has set himself to destroy.
But where is the fury of the oppressor?^(B)