Job 38:5

Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?

Job 11:9

Their measure is longer than the earth
and wider than the sea.

Job 28:25

When God fixed the weight of the wind
and limited the water by measure,

Psalm 19:4

Their message has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.


In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

Psalm 78:55

He drove out nations before them.
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Proverbs 8:27

I was there when He established the heavens,
when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

Proverbs 8:29

when He set a limit for the sea
so that the waters would not violate His command,
when He laid out the foundations of the earth.

Isaiah 34:11

The desert owl and the screech owl will possess it,
and the great owl and the raven will dwell there.
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos.

Isaiah 40:22

God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Zechariah 2:1-2

I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 Corinthians 10:16

so that we may proclaim the good news to the regions beyond you, not boasting about what has already been done in someone else’s area of ministry.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

General references

Bible References

Laid

Job 11:9
Their measure is longer than the earth
and wider than the sea.
Job 28:25
When God fixed the weight of the wind
and limited the water by measure,
Proverbs 8:27
I was there when He established the heavens,
when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?

Who hath stretched

Psalm 19:4
Their message has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.


In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
Psalm 78:55
He drove out nations before them.
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Isaiah 34:11
The desert owl and the screech owl will possess it,
and the great owl and the raven will dwell there.
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos.
Zechariah 2:1
I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Corinthians 10:16
so that we may proclaim the good news to the regions beyond you, not boasting about what has already been done in someone else’s area of ministry.

General references

Psalm 102:25
Long ago You established the earth,
and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

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