Isaiah 40:22

Modern King James Version

It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

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

Job 22:14

Clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks in the circuit of Heaven.

Job 26:7

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

Job 36:29

Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing of His canopy?

Job 37:18

Have you beat out the expanse with Him, hard like a cast mirror?

Job 9:8

who alone stretches out the heavens, and walks on the waves of the sea;

Psalm 104:2

covering Yourself with light as with a robe; and stretching out the heavens like a curtain;

Psalm 18:11

He made darkness His secret place, His pavilion around Him, darkness of waters, 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 He has set a tabernacle for the sun,

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; Jehovah shall mock at them.

Psalm 29:10

Jehovah sits on the flood; yea, Jehovah sits as King forever.

Psalm 68:33

To Him who rides on the heavens of heavens of old; lo, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice.

Proverbs 8:27

When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep;

Isaiah 19:1

The burden against Egypt: Behold, Jehovah rides on a swift cloud and comes 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 Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubs, You are He, God, You alone to all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.

Isaiah 40:15

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the scales; behold, He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before Him are as nothing; and to Him they are thought to be less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 42:4

He shall not fail nor be discouraged until He has set judgment in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His Law.

Isaiah 42:5

So says Jehovah God, He who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; He who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it.

Isaiah 44:24

So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb, I am Jehovah who makes all things; who stretches out the heavens alone; who spreads out the earth; who was with Me?

Isaiah 51:13

And you forget Jehovah your Maker, who has stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. And you dread 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

So says Jehovah, Heaven is My throne, and earth My footstool. Where, then, is the house that you 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 judgment.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the Word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, who 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, of the giants. And we were in our own sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.