He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

And pointing ¹  toward his disciples he said, “Here ²  are my mother and my brothers!

“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, ¹  and spreads its wings toward the south?

In fact, ¹  I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like that of a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of Daughter Zion ²  gasping for breath, reaching out for help, ³  saying, “I am done in! ⁴  My life is ebbing away before these murderers!”

It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land, ¹  O Immanuel.” ² 

¹ The following events happened ²  in the days of Ahasuerus. ³  (I am referring to ⁴  that Ahasuerus who used to rule over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces ⁵  extending all the way from India to Ethiopia. ⁶ )

while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs ¹  and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

“As for you, ¹  if you prove faithful, ²  and if ³  you stretch out your hands toward him, ⁴ 

See how he scattered ¹  his lightning ²  about him; he has covered the depths ³  of the sea.

The one ¹  who flatters ²  his neighbor spreads a net ³  for his steps. ⁴ 

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ¹  as they acknowledge their intense pain ²  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

This is what the Lord, your protector, ¹  says, the one who formed you in the womb: “I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself, ² 

I commission you ¹  as my spokesman; ²  I cover you with the palm of my hand, ³  to establish ⁴  the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’” ⁵ 

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter ¹  his son.

Alammelech, Amad, and Mishal. Their border touched Carmel to the west and Shihor Libnath.

David replied to him, “How is it that you were not afraid to reach out your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?”

It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

For your loyal love extends beyond the sky, ¹  and your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

They come with red cloth ¹  from Egypt, Ethiopia ²  voluntarily offers tribute ³  to God.