74 Bible Verses about He Sits Enthroned Above The Circle

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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 like a tent to dwell in;

Numbers 13:33 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

Job 36:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Job 22:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’

Isaiah 48:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.

Job 26:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

2 Chronicles 6:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!

Genesis 1:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Psalm 104:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.

Amos 2:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 42:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 34:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom, and all its princes shall be nothing.

Job 12:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.

Job 12:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Isaiah 48:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Isaiah 42:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.

Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...

Psalm 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,

Job 36:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.

Job 22:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.

Numbers 22:1-41 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel. And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time, sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me. ...

Isaiah 40:26-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing. Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; ...

Isaiah 40:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

Isaiah 40:18-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains. He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move. Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 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 like a tent to dwell in; ...

Isaiah 40:12-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. ...

Isaiah 40:9-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!” Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

Isaiah 40:6-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Isaiah 40:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Isaiah 40:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 34:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Psalm 107:40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

Job 12:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.

Job 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

Isaiah 41:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

Isaiah 41:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

Isaiah 41:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.

Isaiah 40:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isaiah 11:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

Psalm 107:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

Job 24:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.

Job 18:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

Job 18:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

Job 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

Job 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;

2 Samuel 22:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Ephesians 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might

Isaiah 66:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Isaiah 66:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

Isaiah 51:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

Isaiah 51:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.

Isaiah 45:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.

Isaiah 41:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Isaiah 41:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”

Isaiah 40:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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 like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

Isaiah 37:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 37:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord:

Isaiah 34:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seek and read from the book of the Lord: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

Isaiah 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

Proverbs 8:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

Psalm 147:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.

Psalm 147:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

Psalm 89:11-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them. The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name. You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand.

Job 38:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?

Job 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;

Job 9:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

Nehemiah 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

1 Chronicles 16:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be feared above all gods.

1 Chronicles 16:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

2 Kings 17:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.

1 Samuel 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.

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