# General Information:

Yahweh continues speaking.

# It was my hands that

Here the word "hands" represents Yahweh. Alternate translation: "It was I who" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])

# stretched out the heavens

Yahweh speaks of creating the heavens as if they were fabric that he stretched out. See how you translated a similar phrase in [Isaiah 42:5](../42/05.md).