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

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

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

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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

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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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

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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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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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

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