Isaiah 40:21

Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? 1 Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 1

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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

20To make an offering one chooses a wood that will not rot; 1 he seeks a skillful artisan to make an idol that will not fall over. 1

22He is the one who sits above the horizon of the earth; and the inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. 1 He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to live in. 1

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Cross References

Job 26:7He stretches out the northern skies 1 over the empty space, 1 and he hangs the earth over nothing. 1

Psalms 50:6The heavens will declare his righteousness, 1 for God himself is judge. Selah 1

Isaiah 27:11When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, 1 for this is not a people of understanding. 1 Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and he who made them will not be merciful to them. 1

Isaiah 46:8Think about these things; never ignore them, you rebels! 1

Isaiah 51:13Why have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens 1 and laid the foundations of the earth? You are in constant dread every day 1 because of the hot fury of the oppressor when he decides to destroy. Where is the fury of the oppressor? 1

Acts 14:17But still, he did not leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you the rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

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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