Isaiah 40:22

New English Translation

He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

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

Job 22:14

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

Job 26:7

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.

Job 36:29

Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Job 37:18

will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

Job 9:8

he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

Psalm 104:2

He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

Psalm 18:11

He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

Psalm 19:4

Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.

Psalm 2:4

The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.

Psalm 29:10

The Lord sits enthroned over the engulfing waters, the Lord sits enthroned as the eternal king.

Psalm 68:33

to the one who rides through the sky from ancient times! Look! He thunders loudly.

Proverbs 8:27

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

Isaiah 19:1

Here is a message about Egypt: Look, the Lord rides on a swift-moving cloud and approaches Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him; the Egyptians lose their courage.

Isaiah 37:16

“O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky and the earth.

Isaiah 40:15

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

Isaiah 42:4

He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees.”

Isaiah 42:5

This is what the true God, the Lord, says – the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: “I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

Isaiah 51:13

Why do you forget the Lord, who made you, who stretched out the sky and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor?

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: “The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest?

Jeremiah 10:12

The Lord is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom established the world. And by his understanding he spread out the skies.

Zechariah 12:1

The revelation of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: The Lord – he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person – says,

Numbers 13:33

We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.”