Good read

17 pictures that show how mind-bogglingly large the Universe is

a few examples:

"The unobservable Universe must extend for at least ~400 times the extent of the visible Universe we can see, meaning that our 92 billion light-year diameter Universe is less than one-64-millionth of the minimum volume of what’s out there."

"While many independent Universes are predicted to be created in an inflating spacetime, inflation never ends everywhere at once, but rather only in distinct, independent areas separated by space that continues to inflate. This is where the scientific motivation for a Multiverse comes from, why no two Universes will ever collide, and why we fully expect the unobservable Universe to tend towards infinite size as time goes on.

Been sold on the multiverse for a long time now...

Genesis1:1

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

(Multiple translations/versions)

Isaiah 40

God’s People Are Comforted

Comfort, comfort my people,

says your God.

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,

    and cry to her

that her warfare[a] is ended,

    that her iniquity is pardoned,

that she has received from the Lord’s hand

    double for all her sins.

A voice cries:

“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,

    Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be lifted up,

    and every mountain and hill be made low;

the uneven ground shall become level,

    and the rough places a plain.

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

    and all flesh shall see it together,

    for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

A voice says, “Cry!”

    And I said, “What shall I cry?”

All flesh is grass,

    and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

The grass withers, the flower fades,

    when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;

    surely the people is grass.

The grass withers, the flower fades;

    but the word of our God will stand for ever.

Get you up to a high mountain,

    O Zion, herald of good tidings;

lift up your voice with strength,

    O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings,

    lift it up, fear not;

say to the cities of Judah,

    “Behold your God!”

Behold, the Lord God comes with might,

    and his arm rules for him;

behold, his reward is with him,

    and his recompense before him.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd,

    he will gather the lambs in his arms,

he will carry them in his bosom,

    and gently lead those that are with young.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand

    and marked off the heavens with a span,

enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure

    and weighed the mountains in scales

    and the hills in a balance?

Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,

    or as his counselor has instructed him?

Whom did he consult for his enlightenment,

    and who taught him the path of justice,

and taught him knowledge,

    and showed him the way of understanding?

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

    and are accounted as the dust on the scales;

    behold, he takes up the isles like fine dust.

Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,

    nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

All the nations are as nothing before him,

    they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

To whom then will you liken God,

    or what likeness compare with him?

The idol! a workman casts it,

    and a goldsmith overlays it with gold,

    and casts for it silver chains.

He who is impoverished chooses for an offering

    wood that will not rot;

he seeks out a skilful craftsman

    to set up an image that will not move.

Have you not known? Have you not heard?

    Has it not been told you from the beginning?

    Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,

    and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

    and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

who brings princes to nought,

    and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,

    scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,

when he blows upon them, and they wither,

    and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

To whom then will you compare me,

    that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

Lift up your eyes on high and see:

    who created these?

He who brings out their host by number,

    calling them all by name;

by the greatness of his might,

    and because he is strong in power

    not one is missing.

Why do you say, O Jacob,

    and speak, O Israel,

“My way is hid from the Lord,

    and my right is disregarded by my God”?

Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

    the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary,

    his understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the faint,

    and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Even youths shall faint and be weary,

    and young men shall fall exhausted;

but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,

    they shall mount up with wings like eagles,

they shall run and not be weary,

    they shall walk and not faint.