Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
Parallel translations
- KJV Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
- BSB their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
- NKJV Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,
- NASB Their line has gone out into all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun,
- NLT Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world. God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.
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- Rom 10:18But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
- Gen 1:14–18God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
- Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
- Ps 104:2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
- Ps 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
- 2 Cor 10:13–16But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
- Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
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