Isaiah 40:22 (KJV)
It is he that sittethupon the circleof the earthand the inhabitantsthereof are as grasshoppersthat stretcheth outthe heavensas a curtainand spreadeth them outas a tentto dwell in
Cross-references
It is he that sitteth. or, Him that sitteth, etc. Isa 19:1 Isa 66:1 Ps 2:4 Ps 29:10 Ps 68:33
the inhabitants. Isa 40:15 Isa 40:17 Nu 13:33
stretcheth. Isa 42:5 Isa 44:24 Isa 51:13 Job 9:8 Job 37:18 Job 38:4-9 Ps 102:25 Ps 102:26 Ps 104:2 Jer 10:12 Zec 12:1 Heb 1:10-12
as a curtain.Or, "as a thin veil," as Bp. Lowth renders; which he illustrates by the following passage from Dr. Shaw. "It is usual in the summer season, and upon all occasions when a large company is to be received, to have the court sheltered from heat, or inclemency of the weather by a {velum,} umbrella, or veil, as I shall call it; which, being expanded on ropes from one end of the parapet to the other, may be folded or unfolded at pleasure. The Psalmist seems to allude to some covering of this kind, in that beautiful expression of spreading out the heavens as a curtain."
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