3. At his noon he dries up the country, And who shall stand against his burning heat?
4. A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, But the sun three times more, burning up the mountains: Breathing out fiery vapours, And sending forth bright beams, he dims the eyes.
5. Great is the Lord that made him; And at his word he hastens his course.
6. The moon also is in all things for her season, For a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.
7. From the moon is the sign of the feast day; A light that waneth when she is come to the full.
8. The month is called after her name, Increasing wonderfully in her changing; An instrument of the hosts on high, Shining forth in the firmament of heaven;
9. The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars, An ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord.
10. At the word of the Holy One they will stand in due order, And they will not faint in their watches.
11. Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; Exceeding beautiful in the brightness thereof.
12. It encircles the heaven round about with a circle of glory; The hands of the Most High have stretched it.
13. By his commandment he makes the snow to fall apace, And sends swiftly the lightnings of his judgement.
14. By reason thereof the treasure-houses are opened; And clouds fly forth as fowls.
15. By his mighty power he makes strong the clouds, And the hailstones are broken small:
16. And at his appearing the mountains will be shaken, And at his will the south wind will blow.
17. The voice of his thunder makes the earth to travail; So does the northern storm and the whirlwind: As birds flying down he sprinkleth the snow; And as the lighting of the locust is the falling down thereof:
18. The eye will marvel at the beauty of its whiteness, And the heart will be astonished at the raining of it.
19. The hoar frost also he pours on the earth as salt; And when it is congealed, it is as points of thorns.
20. The cold north wind shall blow, And the ice shall be congealed on the water: It shall lodge upon every gathering together of water, And the water shall put on as it were a breastplate.