Isaiah 40:21

World English Bible (2000)

Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

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  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
  • Rom 1:19-21 : 19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. 20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse. 21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Rom 3:1-2 : 1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Ps 19:1-5 : 1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
  • Ps 50:6 : 6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
  • Isa 46:8 : 8 "Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors.
  • Isa 48:13 : 13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
  • Isa 51:13 : 13 and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
  • Jer 10:8-9 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. 9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men. 10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation. 11 You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. 12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

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  • 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

  • Job 38:4-6
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    78%

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

    5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

    6 Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

  • 28 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

  • 4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

  • 18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

  • 25 Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

  • 25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

  • 15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

  • 10 And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

  • Jer 10:11-12
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    11 You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

    12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

  • 26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

  • 5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • 26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

  • Isa 48:5-7
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    5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.'

    6 You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? "I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

    7 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

  • 11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

  • 5 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

  • 26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And before, that we may say, 'He is right?' Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.

  • 13 and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

  • 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

  • 19 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

  • 21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

  • 13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • 50 Didn't my hand make all these things?'

  • 20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

  • Job 15:7-8
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    7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

  • 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

  • 8 Don't fear, neither be afraid. Haven't I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don't know any other Rock."

  • 18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

  • 4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?

  • 11 "Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me?

  • 29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

  • 33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

  • 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

  • 18 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: "I am Yahweh; and there is no other.

  • 16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?"

  • 12 Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

  • 9 Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,

  • 6 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

  • 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

  • 21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

  • 13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

  • 6 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

  • 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.