⁸ He alone stretches out the heavens^(A)
    and treads on the waves of the sea.^(B)

¹⁸ can you join him in spreading out the skies,^(A)
    hard as a mirror of cast bronze?^(B)

² The Lord wraps^(A) himself in light^(B) as with a garment;
    he stretches^(C) out the heavens^(D) like a tent^(E)

²² He sits enthroned^(A) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.^(B)
He stretches out the heavens^(C) like a canopy,^(D)
    and spreads them out like a tent^(E) to live in.^(F)

I am the Lord,
    the Maker of all things,
    who stretches out the heavens,^(D)
    who spreads out the earth^(E) by myself,

¹² It is I who made the earth^(A)
    and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;^(B)
    I marshaled their starry hosts.^(C)

¹² But God made^(A) the earth^(B) by his power;
    he founded the world by his wisdom^(C)
    and stretched out the heavens^(D) by his understanding.