LXX Concordance for οὐρανόν

God called the expanse “sky.”[fn] Evening came and then morning: the second day.

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God's angels were going up and down on it.

So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on people and animals.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt ​— ​on people and animals and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

The LORD then said to Moses, “Write this down on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven.”

“or the form of any animal on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,

“Then the LORD's anger will burn against you. He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the LORD is giving you.

“The LORD will open for you his abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

“The LORD will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The LORD will blot out his name under heaven,

The men of Ai turned and looked back, and smoke from the city was rising to the sky! They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, Benjamin looked behind them, and the whole city was going up in smoke.[fn]

Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up from kneeling before the altar of the LORD, with his hands spread out toward heaven,

As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire with horses of fire suddenly appeared and separated the two of them. Then Elijah went up into heaven in the whirlwind.

Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them, and their prayer came into his holy dwelling place in heaven.

King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven,

And I said:

My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face toward you, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt is as high as the heavens.

He gives rain to the earth

and sends water to the fields.

God does not hold back his anger;

Rahab's assistants cringe in fear beneath him!

You who tear yourself in anger[fn] —

should the earth be abandoned on your account,

or a rock be removed from its place?

Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?

Tell me, if you know all this.

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[fn]

Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

No women as beautiful as Job's daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

If I go up to heaven, you are there;

if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

“before he made the land, the fields,

or the first soil on earth.

I applied my mind to examine and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven. God has given people[fn] this miserable task to keep them occupied.

There is an occasion for everything,

and a time for every activity under heaven:

“I made the earth,

and created humans on it.

It was my hands that stretched out the heavens,

and I commanded everything in them.

For this is what the LORD says —

the Creator of the heavens,

the God who formed the earth and made it,

the one who established it

(he did not create it to be a wasteland,

but formed it to be inhabited) —

he says, “I am the LORD,

and there is no other.

“My own hand founded the earth,

and my right hand spread out the heavens;

when I summoned them,

they stood up together.

We have become like those you never ruled,

like those who did not bear your name.

I looked at the earth,

and it was formless and empty.

I looked to the heavens,

and their light was gone.

He made the earth by his power,

established the world by his wisdom,

and spread out the heavens by his understanding.

If they dig down to Sheol,

from there my hand will take them;

if they climb up to heaven,

from there I will bring them down.