Isaiah 40:22
He is the one who sits above the horizon of the earth; and the inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. 1 He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to live in. 1
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23He reduces rulers to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth insignificant. 1
Cross References
Numbers 13:33There we saw giants, descendants of Anak, people who came from giants. In our own sight we were like grasshoppers in comparison with them, and this is what we were in their sight, too.”
Job 22:14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see us; 1 he walks on the vault of heaven.' 1
Job 36:29Indeed, can anyone understand the extensive spread of the clouds 1 and the thunder from his hut? 1
Job 38:4Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations? 1 Tell me, if you have so much understanding. 1
Psalms 29:10Yahweh sits as king over the flood; 1 Yahweh sits as king forever. 1
Psalms 102:25In ancient times you set the earth in place; 1 the heavens are the work of your hands. 1
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 →