Isaiah 45:12 “It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands th…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

World English Bible

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

American Standard Version

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue made the earth, and created man vpon it: I, whose hands haue spred out the heauens, I haue euen commanded all their armie.

Darby Translation

It is I that have made the earth, and created man upon it; it is I, my hands, that have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Young's Literal Translation

I made earth, and man on it prepared, I — My hands stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.

Bible in Basic English

I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.

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Cross references

“made the earth”

Isaiah 42:5 Isaiah 45:18 Isaiah 40:28 Hebrews 11:3 Psalm 102:25 Genesis 1:26

Isaiah 42:5 · BSB

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:

Isaiah 45:18 · BSB

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 40:28 · BSB

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.

Hebrews 11:3 · BSB

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

Psalm 102:25 · BSB

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

Genesis 1:26 · BSB

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

“my hands”

Isaiah 44:24 Jeremiah 27:5 Jeremiah 32:17 Zechariah 12:1 Isaiah 40:12 Isaiah 40:22

Isaiah 44:24 · BSB

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,

Jeremiah 27:5 · BSB

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

Jeremiah 32:17 · BSB

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

Zechariah 12:1 · BSB

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:

Isaiah 40:12 · BSB

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 · BSB

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.

“all their host”

Genesis 2:1 Nehemiah 9:6

Genesis 2:1 · BSB

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Nehemiah 9:6 · BSB

You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships Yo…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “Concerning things to come, do you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?

13I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”

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