Isaiah 40:22

American King James Version (1999)

It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Job 22:14

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.

Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 36:29

Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

Job 37:18

Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

Job 9:8

Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Psalm 104:2

Who cover yourself with light as with a garment: who stretch out the heavens like a curtain:

Psalm 18:11

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Psalm 19:4

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Psalm 2:4

He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

Psalm 29:10

The LORD sits on the flood; yes, the LORD sits King for ever.

Psalm 68:33

To him that rides on the heavens of heavens, which were of old; see, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

Proverbs 8:27

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass on the face of the depth:

Isaiah 19:1

The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the middle of it.

Isaiah 37:16

O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwell between the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: you have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 40:15

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 42:4

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus said God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Isaiah 44:24

Thus said the LORD, your redeemer, and he that formed you from the womb, I am the LORD that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone; that spreads abroad the earth by myself;

Isaiah 51:13

And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 66:1

Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build to me? and where is the place of my rest?

Jeremiah 10:12

He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, said the LORD, which stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

Numbers 13:33

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.