A Look at the Creation:
 It
is He who sits above the vault* of the earth, and
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
 who stretches
out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out
like a tent to dwell in." Isaiah 40:22 (NAS)
*From the Hebrew word "chuwg" (khoog); meaning
"a circle" or "a "circuit" or
"compass"
Question:
Isaiah 40:22 says that God sits above the _______
of the earth. (fill in the blank)
Note: The Book of Isaiah was written in
approximately 740
B.C. |
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He
sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and
its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out
the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like
a tent to live in. (NIV)
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 out
like a tent to dwell in. (NKJ) 
(It
is) he that sitteth above the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; (ASV)
It
is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and
the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: (KJV)