The Skies

Welcome to the second in this series of blogs on Creation, with photos taken by me simply with a phone camera and (hopefully) an eye for a half decent picture! Again, I have added in quotes from the Creator’s handbook to increase your enjoyment!

He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.

Psalm 147.8

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

Revelation 1.7

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Nahum 1.3

And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.

Exodus 16.10

He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;

Psalm 104.3

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 36.5

And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

Acts 1.9-11

For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Psalm 108.4

And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Luke 21.27

Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven.

Psalm 78.23

Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.

Proverbs 25.14

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Thessalonians 4.16

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 57.10

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.

Job 26.8

Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.

Revelation 14.14

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 44.22

Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain?
Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we hope in You,
For You are the one who has done all these things.

Jeremiah 14.22

As he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!”

Luke 9.34-35

He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.

Psalm 18.11

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Psalm 19.1

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host… Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!

Psalm 33.5-8

Covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.

Psalm 104.2

And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

Acts 1.9

And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord

Exodus 19.9

Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Psalm 97.2