Job 38:5
New Living Translation
5 Who determined its dimensions
and stretched out the surveying line?
Isaiah 40:12
New Living Translation
The Lord Has No Equal
12 Who else has held the oceans in his hand?
Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers?
Who else knows the weight of the earth
or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?
Zechariah 2:1-2
New Living Translation
Future Prosperity of Jerusalem
2 [a]When I looked again, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 “Where are you going?” I asked.
He replied, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”
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- 2:1 Verses 2:1-13 are numbered 2:5-17 in Hebrew text.
Job 11:9
New Living Translation
9 It is broader than the earth
and wider than the sea.
2 Corinthians 10:16
New Living Translation
16 Then we will be able to go and preach the Good News in other places far beyond you, where no one else is working. Then there will be no question of our boasting about work done in someone else’s territory.
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Isaiah 40:22
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22 God sits above the circle of the earth.
The people below seem like grasshoppers to him!
He spreads out the heavens like a curtain
and makes his tent from them.
Isaiah 34:11
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11 It will be haunted by the desert owl and the screech owl,
the great owl and the raven.[a]
For God will measure that land carefully;
he will measure it for chaos and destruction.
Footnotes
- 34:11 The identification of some of these birds is uncertain.
Proverbs 8:27
New Living Translation
27 I was there when he established the heavens,
when he drew the horizon on the oceans.
Psalm 78:55
New Living Translation
55 He drove out the nations before them;
he gave them their inheritance by lot.
He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.
Psalm 19:4
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4 Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,
and their words to all the world.
God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.
Job 28:25
New Living Translation
25 He decided how hard the winds should blow
and how much rain should fall.
Proverbs 8:29
New Living Translation
29 I was there when he set the limits of the seas,
so they would not spread beyond their boundaries.
And when he marked off the earth’s foundations,
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