Job 38:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
Isaiah 40:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Footnotes
- 40.12 Q ms: MT lacks of the sea
Zechariah 2:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Third Vision: The Man with a Measuring Line
2 [a]I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.(A) 2 Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”(B)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2.1 2.5 in Heb
Job 11:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Its measure is longer than the earth
and broader than the sea.
2 Corinthians 10:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 10.16 Or the gospel
Isaiah 40:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Isaiah 34:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Proverbs 8:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,(A)
Psalm 78:55
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
55 He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(A)
Psalm 19:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 yet their voice[a] goes out through all the earth
and their words to the end of the world.
Job 28:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 When he gave to the wind its weight
and apportioned out the waters by measure,(A)
Proverbs 8:29
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.