Isaiah 40:22

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 dwell in;

Cross References

Genesis 1:6

And God said, “Let there be a firmament 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 vault of heaven.’

Job 26:7

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

Job 36:29

Can any one 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

who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;

Psalm 104:2

who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched 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 them 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 for ever.

Psalm 68:33

to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; lo, he sends forth 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. Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and 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 art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 40:15

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, 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 fail or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth 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 from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth—Who was with me? —

Isaiah 51:13

and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house which you would build for me, and what is the place of my 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 spirit of man within him:

Numbers 13:33

And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim); and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”