وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِ ٱلَّيْلُ وَٱلنَّهَارُ وَٱلشَّمْسُ وَٱلْقَمَرُ لَا تَسْجُدُوا۟ لِلشَّمْسِ وَلَا لِلْقَمَرِ وَٱسْجُدُوا۟ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَهُنَّ
"The night, the day, the sun and the moon are among His signs. Do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon; prostrate to God, who created them."
The construction of the verse must be recorded: first four things are named as āyāt (signs), then prostration to those signs is forbidden.
I record this as my own reading, and its ground is the order of the sentence: a thing's being a sign does not make it something to be turned towards. A sign exists for the sake of what it points to. The logic used of the Book in the third verse of the sūra works here for the sky.
فَإِنِ ٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ فَٱلَّذِينَ عِندَ رَبِّكَ يُسَبِّحُونَ لَهُۥ بِٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ وَهُمْ لَا يَسْـَٔمُونَ — "if they are arrogant: those who are with your Lord glorify Him night and day, and they do not weary."
لَا يَسْـَٔمُونَ — root س-أ-م: to tire, to weary. Keep this word in mind: it will return in the forty-ninth verse, of man.
وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنَّكَ تَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ خَٰشِعَةً فَإِذَآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهَا ٱلْمَآءَ ٱهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ
"That you see the earth with its neck bowed is also among His signs. When We send down water upon it, it stirs and swells."
خَٰشِعَة — root خ-ش-ع: to be lowered, to bow, the sinking of the voice. In the Qurʾān the word is generally used of man (humility in prayer, the falling of the eyes at the resurrection). Here it is given to dried-out soil.
اِهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ — ihtizāz (to tremble, to stir) and rabwa (to swell, to rise — root ر-ب-و; treated at al-Baqara 2/275 in the discussion of ribā).
The order of the three words sets up a process: collapsed → stirred → swollen. And the verse ties this directly to the proof: inna'lladhī aḥyāhā la-muḥyi'l-mawtā — "the one who gave it life will surely give life to the dead."