18 “But will God truly dwell with mankind* upon the earth?+ Look! Heaven, yes, the heaven of the heavens themselves, cannot contain you;+ how much less, then, this house that I have built?+

66 This is what Jehovah has said: “The heavens are my throne,+ and the earth is my footstool.+ Where, then, is the house that YOU people can build for me,+ and where, then, is the place as a resting-place for me?”+