18 Can you, with Him, (A)spread out the skies,
Strong as a cast metal mirror?

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18 can you join him in spreading out the skies,(A)
    hard as a mirror of cast bronze?(B)

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Covering Yourself with (A)light as with a cloak,
(B)Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain.

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The Lord wraps(A) himself in light(B) as with a garment;
    he stretches(C) out the heavens(D) like a tent(E)

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22 It is He who [a]sits above the [b](A)circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like (B)grasshoppers,
Who (C)stretches out the heavens like a (D)curtain
And spreads them out like a (E)tent to live in.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:22 Or is enthroned
  2. Isaiah 40:22 Or vault

22 He sits enthroned(A) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.(B)
He stretches out the heavens(C) like a canopy,(D)
    and spreads them out like a tent(E) to live in.(F)

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