Isaiah 40:21

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been announced to you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth?

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In The King James Version

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

In Context

20He has chosen strong wood that will not decay. The skillful artisan seeks a way to set up an idol that cannot be moved.

22He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.

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Cross References

Job 26:7He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.

Psalms 50:6Against you only have I sinned, and I have done evil before your eyes. And so, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.

Isaiah 27:11Its harvest will be crushed by dryness. Women will arrive and teach it, for it is not a wise people. Because of this, he who made it will not take pity on it, and he who formed it will not spare it.

Isaiah 46:8Remember this, and be confounded. Return, you transgressors, to the heart.

Isaiah 51:13And have you forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who extended the heavens, and who founded the earth? And have you been in constant dread, all day long, at the face of his fury, of the one who afflicted you and who had prepared to destroy you? Where is the fury of the oppressor now?

Acts 14:17And by saying these things, they were barely able to restrain the crowds from immolating to them.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:19-27

Vanity of Idols. ( b. c. 708.) 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from… Read the whole commentary →

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