Isaiah 40:22

He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

Young's Literal Translation

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 ye not know — do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood [From] the foundations of the earth?

23He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33and there we saw the Nephilim, sons of Anak, of the Nephilim; and we are in our own eyes as grasshoppers; and so we were in their eyes.'

Job 22:14Thick clouds [are] a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,

Job 36:29Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

Job 38:4Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

Psalms 29:10Jehovah on the deluge hath sat, And Jehovah sitteth king — to the age,

Psalms 102:25Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands [are] 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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