Isaiah 40:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

Job 22:14

Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the dome of heaven.’

Job 26:7

He stretches out Zaphon over the void and hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 36:29

Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Job 37:18

Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?

Job 9:8

he alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the Sea;

Psalm 104:2

wrapped in light as with a garment. You stretch out the heavens like a tent;

Psalm 18:11

He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.

Psalm 19:4

yet their voice goes out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens he has set a tent for the sun,

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.

Psalm 29:10

The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.

Psalm 68:33

O rider in the heavens, the ancient heavens; listen, he sends out his voice, his 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

An oracle concerning Egypt. See, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Isaiah 37:16

“O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 40:15

Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Isaiah 42:4

He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth, and the coastlands wait for his teaching.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by myself spread out the earth;

Isaiah 51:13

You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; so what kind of house could you build for me, what sort of place for me to rest?

Jeremiah 10:12

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Zechariah 12:1

An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim), and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”