Isaiah 40:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Who hath measured the waters in his fist? who hath measured heauen with his spanne, and hath comprehended all the earth of the worlde in three measures? who hath wayed the mountaynes and hylles in a ballaunce?

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  • Prov 30:4 : 4 Who hath clymed vp into heauen, and come downe from thence? who hath holden the wynde fast in his hande? who hath gathered together the waters in a garment? who hath established all the endes of the worlde: what is his name, and what is his sonnes name, yf thou canst tell?
  • Heb 1:10-12 : 10 And thou Lorde, in the begynnyng hast layde the foundation of the earth: And the heauens are the workes of thy handes: 11 They shall perishe, but thou endurest, and they shall waxe olde as doth a garment: 12 And as a vesture shalt thou folde the vp, and they shalbe chaunged: but thou art the same, & thy yeres shall not fayle.
  • Ps 102:25-26 : 25 Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes. 26 They shall perishe, but thou wylt remayne styll: they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment, and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged.
  • Ps 104:2-3 : 2 Who is decked with light as it were with a garment: spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne. 3 Who seeleth his vpper chaumbers with waters: and maketh the cloudes his charriot, and walketh vpon the wynges of the wynde.
  • Isa 48:13 : 13 My hande hath layde the foundation of the earth, and my ryght hande hath spanned ouer the heauens: assoone as I call them, they stande together.
  • Job 38:4-9 : 4 Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding. 5 Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations set? or who layed the corner stone thereof? 7 Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly? 8 Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe? 9 When I made the cloudes to be a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke: 10 When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it, 11 Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I sawe a great whyte throne, and him that sate on it, fro whose face fledde away both the earth and heauen, and their place was no more founde.
  • Prov 8:26-28 : 26 The earth, and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made, no not the dust it selfe. 27 For when he made the heauens, I was present, when he compassed the deapthes about: 28 When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe:
  • Job 11:7-9 : 7 Art thou able to finde out the secretes of God? Or wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the almightie? 8 It is hier then heauen, what art thou able to do? deeper then the hel, how wilt thou then knowe it? 9 The measure of it is longer then the earth, and broder then the sea.
  • Job 28:25 : 25 When he wayed the windes and measured the waters:

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    24For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen.

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    13Who hath directed the spirite of the Lorde? or who gaue hym counsayle, and shewed hym?

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    15Beholde, all people are in comparison of hym as a droppe of a bucket full, and are counted as the least thyng that the ballaunce wayeth: yea and the Isles he taketh vp as a very litle thyng.

  • Job 38:4-5
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    4Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding.

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    9The measure of it is longer then the earth, and broder then the sea.

  • Jer 10:12
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    12But as for our God he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome doth he order the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discretion hath he spread out the heauens.

  • Jer 51:15
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    15Yea euen the Lorde of hoastes that with his power made the earth, with his wisdome prepared the round world, and with his discretion spread out the heauens.

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    6He stoode, and measured the earth, he behelde, and dissolued the nations, and the euerlasting mountaynes were broken, and the auncient hilles did bowe, his wayes are euerlasting.

  • Isa 40:21-22
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    21Knowe ye nothyng? hearde ye neuer of it? hath it not ben preached vnto you since the beginning? haue ye not ben enfourmed of this by the foundation of the earth?

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    4In his hande are all the deepe corners of the earth: and the hygh toppes of hylles be his also.

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    16Hast thou knowen the varietie of the cloudes, and the wonderous workes of him which is perfect in knowledge?

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    7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.

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    18To whom then wyll ye lyken God? or what similitude will ye set vp to him?

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    13He watereth the hilles from aboue: the earth is replenished with the fruite of thy workes.