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It was God who declared that the waters of the whole earth 
made one great ocean, and that it was subdivided into seas. 
Isaiah was inspired to declare the exact adjustment of the pro- 
portion of land and water. 
Heaven is meted out with a span. 
The words here used express the utmost accuracy. A 
span, j-pt (zereth) is exactly the same as our own span, the 
space marked out by the extended finger and thumb. 
Meted is ( tik-kain ) applied to exact weight or measure- 
ment, whether morally or materially : — 
“ The Lord weiglieth the spirits.” (Prov. xvi. 2.) 
“ By Him actions are weighed.” (1 Sam. ii. 3.) 
“ Is not my way equal ? ” (Ezek. xviii. 25.) 
“ He weigheth the waters by measure.” (J ob xxviii. 25.) 
“ They gave the money, being told.” (2 Kings xii. 11.) 
What a glorious idea Isaiah gave of the omnipotence and the 
skill of God ! The, to us, immeasurable spaces of the heavens 
are measured by God^s span, and accurately arranged. The 
stars of heaven have their assigned places. Job knew that a 
similar adjustment is in the wind and’water of the earth. “ To 
make the weight for the winds : and He weigheth the waters 
by measure.” 
He comprehended (bp kdl , completed) the dust of the 
earth in a tierce shaikh, third part) — i. e., the arable 
part of the land is one of three great divisions : — 
1. The mountains. 2. The arid land. 3. The arable land. 
He weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a 
balance. 
He made an exact adjustment of the relative gravity of the 
mountains and hills to the whole crust of the earth. 
There is here a suggestion which far exceeds our present 
scientific knowledge. It will yet be found to contain a won- 
derful amount of scientific truth. 
“The circle of the earth” is an expression which shows 
that the Hebrews did not believe the earth to be a four- 
cornered flat thing, but a globe. 
The last statement is about the stars of heaven. 
God created them, i.e. gave them a perfect existence. 
They are a host — (tzdbd) an orderly arranged multitude. 
They are numbered, as if written down in a book in exact 
computation . 
They are continually brought forth— (mdtzee, caused 
to go). 
They are called by names. 
