Isaiah

Chapter 24





1.   Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth the surface thereof¹, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

19.   Utterly broken up hath been the land (Earth), utterly cracked apart, fragmented hath been the land (Earth), violently moved hath been the land (Earth).

20.   The land (Earth) staggers around and trembles, shakes like a drunkard, and moves to and fro, sways like a hut (in a windstorm); and heavy upon it hath been the transgression; and it shall fall, and not rise again.



1.   ¹It's surface he distorts, makes crooked, perverts, turns amiss or wrongly.    1611 margin:  "perverteth the face thereof"







Chapter 40



22.   It is he that sitteth enthroned above the circuit of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain (thin veil), and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:





Chapter 45

18.   For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens (Universe); God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established, framed¹ it, fixed it fast (made it to stand upright),  he created it not in vain (he created it not to be an empty, barren wasteland), he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.



18.     ¹ Heb. 11:3.  The intended purpose, making it what it ought to be, inhabitable.