Isaías 40:22

22 Él reina sobre la bóveda de la tierra,cuyos habitantes son como langostas.Él extiende los cielos como un toldo,y los despliega como carpa para ser habitada.

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 El que es muy pobre para ofrendarescoge madera que no se pudra,y busca un hábil artesanopara erigir un ídolo que no se caiga.

21 ¿Acaso no lo sabían ustedes?¿No se habían enterado?¿No se les dijo desde el principio?¿No lo entendieron desde la fundación del mundo?

22 Él reina sobre la bóveda de la tierra,cuyos habitantes son como langostas.Él extiende los cielos como un toldo,y los despliega como carpa para ser habitada.

23 Él anula a los poderosos,y a nada reduce a los gobernantes de este mundo.

24 Escasamente han sido plantados,apenas han sido sembrados,apenas echan raíces en la tierra,cuando él sopla sobre ellos y se marchitan;¡y el huracán los arrasa como paja!