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Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
    Or who stretched the line upon it?

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Who marked off its dimensions?(A) Surely you know!
    Who stretched a measuring line(B) across it?

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12 Who has measured the waters of the sea[a] in the hollow of his hand
    and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
    and weighed the mountains in scales
    and the hills in a balance?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 40.12 Q ms: MT lacks of the sea

12 Who has measured the waters(A) in the hollow of his hand,(B)
    or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?(C)
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
    or weighed the mountains on the scales
    and the hills in a balance?(D)

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Third Vision: The Man with a Measuring Line

[a]I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.(A) Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”(B)

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  1. 2.1 2.5 in Heb

A Man With a Measuring Line

[a]Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked, “Where are you going?”

He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”(A)

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  1. Zechariah 2:1 In Hebrew texts 2:1-13 is numbered 2:5-17.

Its measure is longer than the earth
    and broader than the sea.

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Their measure(A) is longer than the earth
    and wider than the sea.(B)

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16 so that we may proclaim the good news[a] in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in someone else’s field.

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  1. 10.16 Or the gospel

16 so that we can preach the gospel(A) in the regions beyond you.(B) For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else’s territory.

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22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
    and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
    and spreads them like a tent to live in,(A)

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22 He sits enthroned(A) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.(B)
He stretches out the heavens(C) like a canopy,(D)
    and spreads them out like a tent(E) to live in.(F)

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11 But the desert owl[a] and the screech owl[b] shall possess it;
    the great owl and the raven shall live in it.
He shall stretch the line of confusion
    and the plummet of chaos over it.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 34.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 34.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain

11 The desert owl[a](A) and screech owl[b] will possess it;
    the great owl[c] and the raven(B) will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom(C)
    the measuring line of chaos(D)
    and the plumb line(E) of desolation.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
  2. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
  3. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

27 When he established the heavens, I was there;
    when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,(A)

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27 I was there when he set the heavens in place,(A)
    when he marked out the horizon(B) on the face of the deep,

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55 He drove out nations before them;
    he apportioned them for a possession
    and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(A)

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55 He drove out nations(A) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;(B)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

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yet their voice[a] goes out through all the earth
    and their words to the end of the world.

In the heavens[b] he has set a tent for the sun,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 19.4 Gk Jerome Compare Syr: Heb line
  2. 19.4 Heb In them

Yet their voice[a] goes out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.(A)
In the heavens God has pitched a tent(B) for the sun.(C)

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  1. Psalm 19:4 Septuagint, Jerome and Syriac; Hebrew measuring line

25 When he gave to the wind its weight
    and apportioned out the waters by measure,(A)

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25 When he established the force of the wind
    and measured out the waters,(A)

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29 when he assigned to the sea its limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,(A)

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29 when he gave the sea its boundary(A)
    so the waters would not overstep his command,(B)
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.(C)

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