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Isaiah 40:21

Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth ?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved.

22It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

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Cross References

Job 26:7He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Psalms 50:6And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

Isaiah 27:11Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Isaiah 46:8Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart.

Isaiah 51:13And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth: and thee hast been afraid continually all the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee, and had prepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the oppressor?

Acts 14:17And speaking these things, they scarce restrained the people from sacrificing 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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