Isaiah 40:22

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon and set him in his place again.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”

There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”

“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

The burden of Egypt. “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: