Isaiah 40:22

New Century Version

God sits on his throne above the circle of the earth, and compared to him, people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the skies like a piece of cloth and spreads them out like a tent to sit under.

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

Then God said, “Let there be something to divide the water in two.”

Job 22:14

Thick clouds cover him so he cannot see us as he walks around high up in the sky.’

Job 26:7

God stretches the northern sky out over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 36:29

No one understands how God spreads out the clouds or how he sends thunder from where he lives.

Job 37:18

You cannot stretch out the sky like God and make it look as hard as polished bronze.

Job 9:8

He alone stretches out the skies and walks on the waves of the sea.

Psalm 104:2

you wear light like a robe. You stretch out the skies like a tent.

Psalm 18:11

He made darkness his covering, his shelter around him, surrounded by fog and clouds.

Psalm 19:4

But their message goes out through all the world; their words go everywhere on earth. The sky is like a home for the sun.

Psalm 2:4

But the one who sits in heaven laughs; the Lord makes fun of them.

Psalm 29:10

The Lord controls the flood. The Lord will be King forever.

Psalm 68:33

Sing to the one who rides through the skies, which are from long ago. He speaks with a thundering voice.

Proverbs 8:27

I was there when God put the skies in place, when he stretched the horizon over the oceans,

Isaiah 19:1

This is a message about Egypt: Look, the Lord is coming on a fast cloud to enter Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before him, and Egypt’s courage will melt away.

Isaiah 37:16

“Lord All-Powerful, you are the God of Israel, whose throne is between the gold creatures with wings, only you are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Isaiah 40:15

The nations are like one small drop in a bucket; they are no more than the dust on his measuring scales. To him the islands are no more than fine dust on his scales.

Isaiah 40:17

Compared to the Lord all the nations are worth nothing; to him they are less than nothing.

Isaiah 42:4

he will not lose hope or give up until he brings justice to the world. And people far away will trust his teachings.”

Isaiah 42:5

God, the Lord, said these things. He created the skies and stretched them out. He spread out the earth and everything on it. He gives life to all people on earth, to everyone who walks on the earth.

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord says, who saved you, who formed you in your mother’s body: “I, the Lord, made everything, stretching out the skies by myself and spreading out the earth all alone.

Isaiah 51:13

Have you forgotten the Lord who made you, who stretched out the skies and made the earth? Why are you always afraid of those angry people who trouble you and who want to destroy? But where are those angry people now?

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. So do you think you can build a house for me? Do I need a place to rest?

Jeremiah 10:12

God made the earth by his power. He used his wisdom to build the world and his understanding to stretch out the skies.

Zechariah 12:1

This message is the word of the Lord to Israel. This is what the Lord says, who stretched out the skies, and laid the foundations of the earth, and put the human spirit within:

Numbers 13:33

We saw the Nephilim people there. (The Anakites come from the Nephilim people.) We felt like grasshoppers, and we looked like grasshoppers to them.”