And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Isaiah 40:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them like a tent to live in, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It is God Who sits above the circle (the horizon) of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; it is He Who stretches out the heavens like [gauze] curtains and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in, American Standard Version (1901) It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; Common English Bible God inhabits the earth’s horizon— its inhabitants are like locusts— stretches out the skies like a curtain and spreads it out like a tent for dwelling. Catholic Public Domain Version He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. |
And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the dome of heaven.’
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
wrapped in light as with a garment. You stretch out the heavens like a tent;
He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
yet their voice goes out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens he has set a tent for the sun,
The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.
O rider in the heavens, the ancient heavens; listen, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.
When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
An oracle concerning Egypt. See, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
“O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth, and the coastlands wait for his teaching.
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by myself spread out the earth;
You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; so what kind of house could you build for me, what sort of place for me to rest?
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:
There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim), and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”