Isaiah 40:22

Bible in Basic English 1965

It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

Job 22:14

Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

Job 26:7

By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

Job 36:29

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

Job 37:18

Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

Job 9:8

By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

Psalm 104:2

You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

Psalm 18:11

He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Psalm 19:4

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

Psalm 2:4

Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

Psalm 29:10

The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.

Psalm 68:33

To him who goes or the clouds of heaven, the heaven which was from earliest times; he sends out his voice of power.

Proverbs 8:27

When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

Isaiah 19:1

The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.

Isaiah 37:16

O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 40:15

See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

Isaiah 42:4

His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.

Isaiah 42:5

God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

Isaiah 51:13

And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

Isaiah 66:1

The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?

Jeremiah 10:12

He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

Zechariah 12:1

The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

Numbers 13:33

There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.