מַעַל

And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:

And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.