Isaiah 42:5

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Isaiah 42:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

4 He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

5 This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

6 “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

7 to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

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Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

Isaiah 40:22

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 40:28

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

Isaiah 45:12

It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Isaiah 48:13

Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.

Psalms 102:25

In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Psalms 102:26

They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.

Psalms 104:2

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

Psalms 104:3

laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

Psalms 104:4

He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

Psalms 104:5

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

Psalms 104:6

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalms 104:7

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

Psalms 104:8

the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

Psalms 104:9

You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.

Psalms 104:10

He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

Psalms 104:11

They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Psalms 104:12

The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

Psalms 104:13

He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.

Psalms 104:14

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Psalms 104:15

wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Psalms 104:16

The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

Psalms 104:17

where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

Psalms 104:18

The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

Psalms 104:19

He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

Psalms 104:20

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Psalms 104:21

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

Psalms 104:22

The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

Psalms 104:23

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

Psalms 104:24

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Psalms 104:25

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

Psalms 104:26

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Psalms 104:27

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

Psalms 104:28

When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

Psalms 104:29

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalms 104:30

When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

Psalms 104:31

May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.

Psalms 104:32

He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.

Psalms 104:33

I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Psalms 104:34

May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

Psalms 104:35

May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!

Jeremiah 10:12

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Jeremiah 32:17

“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

Amos 9:6

He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

Zechariah 12:1

This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

Hebrews 1:2

But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.

Hebrews 1:10

And: “In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Hebrews 1:11

They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.

Hebrews 1:12

You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”

Genesis 1:10

God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:12

The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:24

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:25

God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Psalms 24:1

The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

Psalms 24:2

For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

Psalms 136:6

He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Job 12:10

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 34:14

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Psalms 33:6

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Acts 17:25

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.