Isaiah 40:22

Modern English Version

It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

Job 22:14

Thick clouds are His covering, so He cannot see; and He walks above the circle of heaven.’

Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over empty space, He hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 36:29

Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, or the noise of His tent?

Job 37:18

Have you, with Him, spread out the sky, which is strong and is like a molded mirror?

Job 9:8

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

Psalm 104:2

covering Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a curtain.

Psalm 18:11

He made darkness His secret place; His pavilion surrounding Him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Psalm 19:4

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tent for the sun,

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord ridicules them.

Psalm 29:10

The Lord sat enthroned over the flood; and the Lord sits as King forever.

Psalm 68:33

to Him who rides on the highest heavens, which were of old! Behold, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice.

Proverbs 8:27

When He established the heavens, I was there; when He drew a circle on the face of the deep,

Isaiah 19:1

The oracle of Egypt. Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in its midst.

Isaiah 37:16

“O  Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who dwells above 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 in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold, He takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

Isaiah 42:4

He shall not be disheartened nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth; and the coastlands shall wait for his law.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes out of it, who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth by Myself,

Isaiah 51:13

and forget the Lord your maker who has stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth? And have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor as he makes ready to destroy? Yet where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where then is the house that you could build for 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 oracle of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, the One who stretches out the heavens and establishes 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 from the giants, and in our eyes we were like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes.”