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

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?

Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.

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.

He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

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,

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.

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.

I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

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.

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Summary

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

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Bible References

Laid

Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.
When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
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?

Who hath stretched

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.
He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
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.
I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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.

General references

In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.

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