Job 38:5
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5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
Isaiah 40:12
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12 (A)Who has measured the waters 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?
Zechariah 2:1-2
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A Vision of a Man with a Measuring Line
2 [a] And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, (A)a man with a measuring line in his hand! 2 Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, (B)“To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”
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- Zechariah 2:1 Ch 2:5 in Hebrew
Job 11:9
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9 Its measure is longer than the earth
and broader than the sea.
2 Corinthians 10:16
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16 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence.
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Isaiah 40:22
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22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are (A)like grasshoppers;
(B)who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
Isaiah 34:11
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11 (A)But the hawk and the porcupine[a] shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(B)He shall stretch the line of (C)confusion[b] over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
- Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
Proverbs 8:27
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27 When he (A)established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew (B)a circle on the face of the deep,
Psalm 78:55
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55 He (A)drove out nations before them;
he (B)apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Psalm 19:4
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4 (A)Their (B)voice[a] goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for (C)the sun,
Footnotes
- Psalm 19:4 Or Their measuring line
Job 28:25
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25 When he (A)gave to the wind its weight
and apportioned the waters by measure,
Proverbs 8:29
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29 when he (A)assigned to the sea its (B)limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out (C)the foundations of the earth,
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