Verse 5

Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Referenced Verses

• Isa 40:12 : 12 The Lord is Incomparable Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?
• Job 11:9 : 9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
• Job 28:25 : 25 When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge,
• Ps 19:4 : 4 Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.
• Ps 78:55 : 55 He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
• Prov 8:27 : 27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
• Prov 8:29 : 29 when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
• Isa 34:11 : 11 Owls and wild animals will live there, all kinds of wild birds will settle in it. The LORD will stretch out over her the measuring line of ruin and the plumb line of destruction.
• Isa 40:22 : 22 He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.
• Zech 2:1-2 : 1 Vision Three: The Surveyor(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 I asked,“Where are you going?” He replied,“To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.”
• 2 Cor 10:16 : 16 so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.