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Isaiah 40:22

He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.

Catholic Public Domain 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

21Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been announced to you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth?

23He has brought those who examine what is secret to nothingness. He has brought the judges of the earth to emptiness.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33And before the sons of Israel they disparaged the land, which they had inspected, saying: “The land, which we viewed, devours its inhabitants. The people, upon whom we gazed, were of lofty stature.

Job 22:14and, “The clouds are his hiding-place,” and, “He does not examine us closely,” and, “He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens.”

Job 36:29If he wills it, he extends the clouds as his tent

Job 38:4Where were you, when I set the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

Psalms 29:10What use would there be in my blood, if I descend into corruption? Will dust confess to you or announce your truth?

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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