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The underworld[a] is naked in God’s presence.
    The place of destruction[b] is uncovered.
God stretches the northern sky over empty space
    and hangs the earth on nothing.
He wraps the rain in his thick clouds,
    and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.

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Footnotes

  1. 26:6a Hebrew Sheol.
  2. 26:6b Hebrew Abaddon.

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