Isaiah 40:22

[It is he] that dwelleth above the circle of the earth, while its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretched out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

Leeser Tanakh

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

21Know ye not? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not paid attention to the foundations of the earth?

23That bringeth princes to naught; rendering the judges of the earth as vanity.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants, the sons of 'Anak, of the giants' [family]: and we were in our own eyes as grasshoppers, and so were we in their eyes.

Job 22:14Thick clouds are a covering for him, so that he will not see; and he walketh along on the circle of heaven.”

Job 36:29But [what man] can understand the outspreadings of the clouds? the tumult of his tabernacle?

Job 38:4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell it, if thou hast any understanding [of it].

Psalms 29:10The Lord sat [enthroned] at the flood: and the Lord will sit as King for ever.

Psalms 102:25(102:26) In olden times didst thou lay the foundations 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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