He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Cross References Genesis 1:6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters." Numbers 13:33 We even saw the Nephilim there--the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!" Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. Job 22:14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.' Job 36:29 Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion? Psalm 18:11 He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him. Psalm 19:4 their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun. Psalm 104:2 He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent, Proverbs 8:27 I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, Isaiah 37:16 "O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. Isaiah 42:5 This is what God the LORD says--He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it: Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth, Isaiah 51:13 But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor? Jeremiah 10:12 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding. Treasury of Scripture It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in: it is he that sitteth. Isaiah 19:1 Isaiah 66:1 Psalm 2:4 the inhabitants Isaiah 40:15,17 Numbers 13:33 stretcheth Isaiah 42:5 Isaiah 44:24 Isaiah 51:13 as a curtain. |
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