Isaiah 48:13

King James Version

Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Also, My hand founded the earth,And My right hand spread out the heavens;When I call to them, they stand together.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Surely My hand founded the earth, And My right hand spread out the heavens; When I call to them, they stand together.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My hande hath layde the foundation of the earth, and my ryght hande hath spanned ouer the heauens: assoone as I call them, they stande together.

Darby Translation
Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread abroad the heavens: I call unto them, they stand up together.

New King James Version
Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up together.

Literal Translation
My hand surely founded earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; I called to them, they stood up together.

Easy-to-Read Version
I made the earth with my own hands. My right hand made the sky. And if I call them, they will come to stand before me.

World English Bible
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

King James Version (1611)
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heauens: when I call vnto them, they stand vp together.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My honde is the foundacion of the earth, & my right honde spanneth ouer the heauens. As soone as I called the they were there.

Amplified Bible
"My hand founded and established the earth, And My right hand spread out the heavens; When I call to them, they stand together [in obedience to carry out My decrees].

American Standard Version
Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Bible in Basic English
Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.

Update Bible Version
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

Webster's Bible Translation
My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I call to them, they stand up together.

New Century Version
I made the earth with my own hands. With my right hand I spread out the skies. When I call them, they come together before me."

New English Translation
Yes, my hand founded the earth; my right hand spread out the sky. I summon them; they stand together.

Contemporary English Version
With my own hand I created the earth and stretched out the sky. They obey my every command.

Complete Jewish Bible
My hand laid the foundation of the earth, my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summoned them, at once they rose into being.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely mine hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heaues: when I cal them, they stand vp together.

George Lamsa Translation
My hand has laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand has stretched out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand up together.

Hebrew Names Version
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the eretz, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, My hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand hath spread out the heavens; when I call unto them, they stand up together.

New Living Translation
It was my hand that laid the foundations of the earth, my right hand that spread out the heavens above. When I call out the stars, they all appear in order."

New Life Bible
My hand put the earth in its place. And My right hand spread out the heavens. When I call to them, they stand together.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My hand also has founded the earth, and my right hand has fixed the sky: I will call them, and they shall stand together.

English Revised Version
Yea, mine hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Berean Standard Bible
Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.

New Revised Standard
My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand at attention.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely, mine own hand, founded the earth, And, my right hand, stretched out the heavens, - While I was calling unto them, they stood forth, at once

Douay-Rheims Bible
My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.

Lexham English Bible
Indeed, my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand in position together.

English Standard Version
My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.

New American Standard Bible
"Assuredly My hand founded the earth, And My right hand spread out the heavens; When I call to them, they stand together.

Good News Translation
My hands made the earth's foundations and spread the heavens out. When I summon earth and sky, they come at once and present themselves.

Christian Standard Bible®
My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summoned them, they stood up together.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And myn hond foundide the erthe, and my riyt hond mat heuenes; Y schal clepe tho, and tho schulen stonde togidere.

Revised Standard Version
My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.

Young's Literal Translation
Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand together.

Contextual Overview

⁹ For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. ¹⁰ Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. ¹² Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. ¹³ Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. ¹⁴ All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. ¹⁵ I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hand: Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 45:18, Exodus 20:11, Psalms 102:25, Hebrews 1:10-12

and: Isaiah 40:12

my right hand hath spanned: or, the palm of my right hand hath spread out, Isaiah 40:22, Job 37:18

when: Isaiah 40:26, Psalms 119:89-91, Psalms 147:4, Psalms 148:5-8

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:1 - Thus Psalms 78:69 - earth Psalms 119:91 - They continue this Isaiah 44:24 - I am Isaiah 51:16 - and lay Jeremiah 10:12 - stretched Jeremiah 27:5 - made Jeremiah 32:17 - thou Jeremiah 51:15 - and hath Zechariah 12:1 - which Acts 10:26 - Stand

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth,.... Which is ascribed to the Wisdom, Word, and Son of God, Proverbs 3:19. This Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret of the left hand k, seeing the work of the heavens is ascribed to the right hand in the following clause; the earth being less honourable than the heavens:

and my right hand hath spanned the heavens; stretched them out as a curtain or canopy over the earth, and measured them out with a span, as easily as a man measures anything with his hand; see Isaiah 40:12,

when I call unto them, they stand up together; or, "I called them, and they stood up together", as the Targum; and so may refer to the first creation of them, when at the word of God, and by his almighty fiat, they rose into being at once, Psalms 33:9. Kimchi observes, that the houses of Hillell and Shaminai were divided about this matter, which were created first, the heavens or the earth; at which R. Simeon ben Jochai wondered, since, according to the text, they were both created together l; though this may be understood of the consistence and permanency of the heavens and the earth, being upheld by the Lord, and by the word of his power, and of the ready obedience of the heavenly bodies to do his will, who, like servants, rise up at once at the word of his command; see

Isaiah 40:26.

k Vid. T. Bab. Menachot, fol. 36. 2. l Vid. T. Bab. Chagigah, fol. 12. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mine hand also hath laid ... - I am the Creator of all things, and I have all power, and am abundantly able to deliver you from all your foes.

And my right hand hath spanned the heavens - Margin, ‘The palm of my right hand hath spread out.’ The sense is, that he by his right hand had spanned, or measured the heavens. The phrase is designed to show his greatness and his power (see the notes at Isaiah 40:12).

When I call unto them - (See the note at Isaiah 40:26). The sense here is, that he who had power thus to command the hosts of heaven, and to secure their perfect obedience by his word, had power also to defend his people, and to deliver them from their foes, and conduct them in safety to their own land.