2. Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain; --
3. Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
4. Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flame of fire.
5. He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be removed for ever.
6. Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:
7. At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; --
8. The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them; --
9. Thou hast set a bound which they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
10. He sendeth the springs into the valleys: they run among the mountains;
11. They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.
12. The birds of heaven dwell by them; they give forth their voice from among the branches.
13. He watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
14. He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,