OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 40:22

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22

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,

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Verse 22. Locusts, compared with the greatest animals.—Nothing. Hebrew “a curtain.” Septuagint Syr. “vault, ( Calmet.) or chamber,” καμαραν.

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