Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
Who has measured the waters 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?
And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand! Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”
Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence.
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 dwell in;
But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,
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,
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