Isaiah 40:21

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

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  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Yet, he did not leave himself without a witness, for he gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling you with food and gladness in your hearts.
  • Rom 1:19-21 : 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  • Rom 3:1-2 : 1 What advantage is there, then, in being a Jew? Or what benefit is there in circumcision? 2 Much in every way! First of all, they were entrusted with the very words of God.
  • Ps 19:1-5 : 1 For the choirmaster: A psalm of David. 2 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of His hands. 3 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they reveal knowledge. 4 There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard. 5 Yet their message has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens, He has pitched a tent for the sun.
  • Ps 50:6 : 6 The heavens declare His righteousness, for God Himself is judge. Selah.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, 'Isn't there a lie in my right hand?'
  • Isa 46:8 : 8 Remember this and show yourselves to be men; take it to heart, you transgressors.
  • Isa 48:13 : 13 Indeed, My own hand laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens. When I call to them, they stand together.
  • Isa 51:13 : 13 You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in constant fear every day because of the anger of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
  • Jer 10:8-9 : 8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols. 9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers. 10 But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God, the eternal King. When He is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure His wrath. 11 Tell them this: 'The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.' 12 God made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

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    22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

  • Job 38:4-6
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    78%

    4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

    5Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the measuring line across it?

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    28Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.

  • Job 20:4
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    4Do you not know this from ancient times, since man was placed on the earth,

  • Job 38:18
    76%

    18Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
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    25Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of rubble.

  • Ps 102:25
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    25I say, 'My God, do not take me away in the midst of my days, your years endure through all generations.'

  • Jer 51:15
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    15He made the earth by His power, established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

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    10'In the beginning, Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.'

  • Jer 10:11-12
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    11Tell them this: 'The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.'

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  • Isa 37:26
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    26Have you not heard? From long ago, I planned it; from ancient times, I designed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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    5They do not know nor do they understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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    26Before He made the earth, the fields, or the first dust of the world.

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    5I declared it to you long ago; before it happened, I made you hear of it, so you could not say, 'My idol has done this; my carved and molten images have commanded it.'

    6You have heard it—now see all of it! And will you not declare it? From now on I will make you hear new things, hidden things that you have not known.

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    19By wisdom the LORD laid the foundation of the earth; by understanding He established the heavens.

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