Isaiah 40:22

New International Version

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”

Job 22:14

Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’

Job 26:7

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

Job 36:29

Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?

Job 37:18

can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?

Job 9:8

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

Psalm 104:2

The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent

Psalm 18:11

He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky.

Psalm 19:4

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

Psalm 2:4

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

Psalm 29:10

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

Psalm 68:33

to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens, who thunders with mighty voice.

Proverbs 8:27

I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,

Isaiah 19:1

A prophecy against Egypt: See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

Isaiah 37:16

“Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 40:15

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

Isaiah 42:4

he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his teaching the islands will put their hope.”

Isaiah 42:5

This is what God the Lord says— the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:

Isaiah 44:24

“This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself,

Isaiah 51:13

that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?

Jeremiah 10:12

But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Zechariah 12:1

A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares:

Numbers 13:33

We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”