Job 38:5
“Who determined the measurements [of the earth], if you know?
Or who stretched the [measuring] line on it?
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens with a span [of the hand],
And calculated the dust of the earth with a
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?
Job 11:9
“It is longer in measure [and scope] than the earth,
And broader than the sea.
Job 28:25
“When He gave weight and pressure to the wind
And allotted the waters by measure,
Psalm 19:4
Yet their voice [in quiet evidence] has gone out through all the earth,
Their words to the end of the world.
In them and in the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,
Psalm 78:55
He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
Proverbs 8:27
“When He established the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there;
When He drew a circle upon the face of the deep,
Proverbs 8:29
When He set for the sea its boundary
So that the waters would not transgress [the boundaries set by] His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth—
Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the porcupine will take possession of it;
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
And He will stretch over it (Edom) the measuring line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:22
It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
[It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Zechariah 2:1-2
And I looked up, and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Corinthians 10:16
so that we may preach the gospel even in the lands beyond you, but not to boast in work already accomplished in another one’s field of activity.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Who hath stretched
General references
Bible References
Laid
“It is longer in measure [and scope] than the earth,
And broader than the sea.
“When He gave weight and pressure to the wind
And allotted the waters by measure,
“When He established the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there;
When He drew a circle upon the face of the deep,
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens with a span [of the hand],
And calculated the dust of the earth with a
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?
Who hath stretched
Yet their voice [in quiet evidence] has gone out through all the earth,
Their words to the end of the world.
In them and in the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,
He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
But the pelican and the porcupine will take possession of it;
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
And He will stretch over it (Edom) the measuring line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.
General references
“At the beginning You founded the earth;
The heavens are the work of Your hands.