Isaías 40:22

22 Dios se sienta sobre el círculo de la tierra;
la gente que hay abajo le parecen saltamontes.
Él despliega los cielos como una cortina,
y hace con ellos su carpa.

Isaías 40:22 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 40:22

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth
Or, "the globe ^F26" of it; for the earth is spherical or globular: not a flat plain, but round, hung as a ball in the air; here Jehovah sits as the Lord and Sovereign; being the Maker of it, he is above it, orders and directs its motion, and governs all things in it: Kimchi rightly observes, that the heavens are the circle of the earth, which is the centre of them, and around which they are; and so it signifies, that the Lord sits or dwells in the heavens, from whence he beholds the children of men: and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
or "locusts ^F1"; as one upon a very great eminence looking down beholds creatures as exceeding small and little; and if the Israelites were to the "anakim" or giants as grasshoppers, ( Numbers 13:33 ) , much more must puny mortals be such in the sight of God, and in comparison of him; and this may denote, not only the minuteness of men, but what weak, impotent, useless, worthless, and short lived creatures men are: that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain;
alluding to the firmament or expanse made at the creation, and still continued; which is as a curtain to himself, which he draws around himself, he dwelling in the highest heavens, and in light inaccessible to mortals; and which he stretches out as a canopy around this earth, for the use of the inhabitants of it: or, "as a little thing"; or, as a little skin ^F2; and which he stretches out as easily as a man can stretch out that: and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in it;
for himself to dwell in, and so stretches out the heavens like curtains about him; tents being made of such, and often of skins.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (gwx le) "super sphaeram", Pagninus; "globum", Montanus Vatablus; "super orbem telluris", Vitringa.
F1 (Mybgxk) "ut locustae", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Vitringa; "tanquam locustae", Munster; "velut locustae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
F2 (qdk) "velut tenue", Montanus; "tenuissimum", Vatablus; "pellem." Munster; so some in Vatablus; "pellculam", Gataker.

Isaías 40:22 In-Context

20 Y si la gente es demasiado pobre para eso,
al menos escojen una madera que no se pudre
y un artesano habilidoso
¡para que talle una imagen que no se caiga!

21 ¿Acaso no han oído? ¿No entienden?
¿Están sordos a las palabras de Dios,
las palabras que habló antes de que existiera el mundo?
¿Son tan ignorantes?

22 Dios se sienta sobre el círculo de la tierra;
la gente que hay abajo le parecen saltamontes.
Él despliega los cielos como una cortina,
y hace con ellos su carpa.

23 Él juzga a los poderosos del mundo
y los reduce a nada.

24 Apenas comienzan, recién están echando raíces,
cuando él sopla sobre ellos y se marchitan;
se los lleva el viento como a la paja.