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Isaiah 40:22

It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

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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 you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

23He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.

Job 22:14Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

Job 36:29And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

Job 38:4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

Psalms 29:10The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.

Psalms 102:25\102:24\I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

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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