Isaiah 40:22

God sits on his throne above the horizon of the earth; the people that live there are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreading them out like a tent to live in.

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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

21Don't you know? Haven't you heard? Hasn't it been explained to you from the very beginning? Haven't you understood from the time the world was created?

23He brings leaders down; he makes the rulers of the world like nothing.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33We even saw giants there—people descended from Anak the giant! Compared to them we looked like grasshoppers, and we must have looked like that to them too!”

Job 22:14Thick clouds cover him so he can't see anything as he walks around in heaven.’

Job 36:29Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out, or how thunder roars from where he lives?

Job 38:4Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have such knowledge!

Psalms 29:10The Lord sits on his throne above the floodwaters; the Lord is the eternal King.

Psalms 102:25Long ago you created the earth; you made the heavens.

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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