Isaiah 40:22

[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

In Context

21Have ye not known? Have yet not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

23who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33And we saw there the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim. And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Job 22:14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.

Job 36:29Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Job 38:4Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.

Psalms 29:10LORD sat [as King] at the Flood. Yea, LORD sits as King forever.

Psalms 102:25Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:19-27

Vanity of Idols. ( b. c. 708.) 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from… Read the whole commentary →

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