1. How beautiful is the bright, clear sky above us!What a glorious sight it is!
2. The sun, when it appears, proclaims as it riseshow marvellous a thing it is, made by the Most High.
3. At noon it dries up the land;no one can stand its blazing heat.
16-17. He speaks, and thunder twists the earth in pain;the mountains are shaken by his strength.Whenever he wishes, the south wind blows,whirlwinds come, and windstorms from the north.He sends the snow fluttering down like birds,like locusts alighting on the ground.