“O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! ¹  You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky ²  and the earth.

All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ¹  He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps ²  his hand and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

“This is what he told me: ¹  ‘The fourth beast means that there will be a fourth kingdom on earth that will differ from all the other kingdoms. It will devour all the earth and will trample and crush it.

Because of this the earth ¹  will quake, ²  and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth ³  will rise like the River Nile, ⁴  it will surge upward ⁵  and then grow calm, ⁶  like the Nile in Egypt. ⁷ 

The sovereign Lord who commands armies will do this. ¹  He touches the earth and it dissolves; ²  all who live on it mourn. The whole earth ³  rises like the River Nile, ⁴  and then grows calm ⁵  like the Nile in Egypt. ⁶ 

He builds the upper rooms of his palace ¹  in heaven and sets its foundation supports ²  on the earth. ³  He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name.

All these strong ones ¹  are scattering; they have sought permission to go and walk about over the earth.” The Lord had said, “Go! Walk about over the earth!” So they are doing so.

When humankind ¹  began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born ²  to them, ³ 

The waters completely inundated ¹  the earth so that even ²  all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying ¹  back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

But as for you, ¹  be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building ¹  the city.

He blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by ¹  the Most High God, Creator ²  of heaven and earth. ³ 

People from every country ¹  came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

(Now the man Moses was very humble, ¹  more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

But truly, as I live, ¹  all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.

The heavens – indeed the highest heavens – belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, ¹  and they will respect you.

The earth heaved and shook; ¹  the foundations of the sky ²  trembled. ³  They heaved because he was angry.