Thus says Yahweh, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest? For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
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That reaches back to this verse
The Scripture echoes (this verse)Psalms 50:12
Heaven is my throne: the question 'what kind of house will you build to me' was already rhetorical in Isaiah.
“If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.”
In parallel with (this verse)Acts 17:24-25
The God who gives all life and breath cannot be housed: heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
“The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.”