Isaiah 40:21

Have you(pl) not heard this? Do you not understand it? Are you unable to hear what God said long ago— messages that he gave before he created the earth?

Translation for Translators

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

20A man who is poor cannot buy silver or gold for his idol; so he selects a piece of wood that will not rot, and he gives it to a craftsman to carve an idol that will not fall down!

22God sits on his throne above the earth, and the people on the earth below seem to be as small as [SIM] grasshoppers. He spreads out the sky like a curtain; it is like [SIM] a tent for him to live in.

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Cross References

Job 26:7God stretched out the earth over the huge empty space and caused the earth to have nothing to support it.

Psalms 50:6The angels in heaven declare, “God is righteous, and he is the supreme judge.” (Think about that!)

Isaiah 27:11The Israeli people are like [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires under their cooking pots. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.

Isaiah 46:8You people of Judah, do not forget this; keep thinking about it, you sinful people!

Isaiah 51:13◄Why have you/You should not have► [RHQ] forgotten me, Yahweh, the one who created your nation, the one who stretched out the sky and laid the foundations of the earth. ◄Why are you/You should not be► [RHQ] continually afraid of those who are angry with you and ◄oppress you/treat you cruelly► and want to get rid of you. You should not be afraid of them now, because those angry people have now disappeared!

Acts 14:17But he has shown us [LIT] that he acts kindly toward us(inc). He is the one who causes it to rain and causes crops to grow. He is the one who gives you plenty of food, and makes you very happy.”

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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