Isaiah 40:21
19 To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
20 To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?
Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
23 He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?
- KJV
- 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?
- WEB
- Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
- ASV
- Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
- DARBY
- Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?
- BLB
- Do you⁺ not know? Have you⁺ not heard? Has it not been declared from the beginning to you⁺? Have you⁺ not understood from the foundations of the earth?
- ÅB
- Skjønner dere ikke? Hører dere ikke? Er det ikke fra begynnelsen kunngjort for dere? Har dere ikke forstått jordens grunnvoller?
- OTB
- Vet dere ikke? Har dere ikke hørt? Har det ikke blitt fortalt dere fra begynnelsen? Har dere ikke forstått siden jordens grunnvoller ble lagt?
- B1930
- Skjønner I ikke? Hører I ikke? Er det ikke fra begynnelsen kunngjort for eder? Har I ikke forstått jordens grunnvoller?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 46:8
Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
Read in contextIsaiah 48:13
Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.
Read in contextActs 14:17
Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
Read in contextRomans 1:19–21
For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
Read in contextPsalms 50:6
And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
Read in contextRomans 1:28
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Read in contextPsalms 115:8
Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
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