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The firmament is the sky, conceived as a vast dome. According to Genesis, God created the firmament to separate the "waters above" (the source of rain) from those below (in the underworld). The word is anglicised from Latin firmamentum, which appears in the Vulgate.
The word "firmament" is first recorded in a Middle English narrative based on scripture dated 1250. It later appeared in the King James Bible. The word is anglicised from Latin firmamentum, used in the Vulgate (4th century). This in turn is derived from the Latin root firmus, a cognate with "firm". The word is a Latinization of the Greek stereoma, which appears in the Septuagint (c. 200 BC).
The word "firmament" is used to translate raqia, or raqiya` ( רקיע), a word used in Biblical Hebrew. The connotation of firmness conveyed by the Vulgate's firmamentum is consistent that of stereoma, the Greek word used in the Septuagint, an earlier translation. The notion of solidity is advanced explicitly in several biblical passages.
The original word raqia is derived from the root raqa ( רקע), meaning "to beat or spread out", e.g., the process of making a dish by hammering thin a lump of metal.Raqa adopted the meaning "to make firm or solid" in Syriac, a major dialect of Aramaic (the vernacular of Jesus) and close cognate of Hebrew.
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Forgotten, forbidden, forsaken the skies
My god of ancients, I crumble and die,
My castles in ruin, buried beneath me
...exalts with desire into destiny
...and I look up to the sky
and pray to a god that doesn't know my pain.
Times since passed for you and I...
Molden flame to flame
My nights of dreams, my blood so faint...
Leading from shrines, so empty and vain
My heart so weakened by all this shame
Behold enduring skies, molden flame to flame
...and I look up to the sky
and pray to a god that doesn't know mym pain.
Times since passes for you and I...
Imprisoned by all this shame...
Imprisoned by my heart and soul...
A prayer to the sky...
I trust that you will hold me
In your firm embrace
Please... let it be her...
The one who bared my childbirth
(...And between us and boundless eternity,
we will be united once again.)
Would you walk with me in this place called heaven?
(When the earth in her hunger cries for food.
To raise his soul high above the firmament
That he may foretaste our tomorrow
And to keep his body groveling in the mire