Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"You know, don't you? You have heard, haven't you? Hasn't it been told you from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?
New American Standard Bible
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood
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?
Holman Bible
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?
A Conservative Version
Have ye not known? Have yet not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
American Standard Version
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?
Amplified
Do you [who worship idols] not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth [the omnipotence of God and the stupidity of bowing to idols]?
Bible in Basic English
Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?
Darby Translation
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?
Julia Smith Translation
Will ye not know? will ye not hear? was it not announced to you from the beginning? did ye not understand from the foundations of the earth?
King James 2000
Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from [the] {beginning}? Have you not understood [from] the foundation of the earth?
Modern King James verseion
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Know ye not this? Heard ye never of it? Hath it not been preached unto you since the beginning? Have ye not been informed of this since the foundation of the earth was laid?
NET Bible
Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth's foundations were made?
New Heart English Bible
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?
The Emphasized Bible
Have ye never taken note? Have ye never heard? Hath it not from the beginning, been told you? Have ye not been led to discern, from the foundations of the earth?
Webster
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?
World English Bible
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood From the foundations of the earth?
Interlinear
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Ro'sh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
20 To the impoverished person? He prepares an offering wood that won't rot Or to the one who chooses a skilled craftsman and seeks to erect an idol that won't topple?" 21 "You know, don't you? You have heard, haven't you? Hasn't it been told you from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 He's the one who sits above the disk of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He's the one who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Acts 14:17
yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy."
Psalm 19:1-5
The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands.
Psalm 50:6
The heavens revealed his justice, for God is himself the judge. Interlude
Psalm 115:8
Those who craft them will become like them, as will all those who trust in them.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry, they are broken off, and women come and kindle fires with them, since this is a people who show no consideration. That is why the One who made them shows them no compassion; the One who created them shows them no mercy.
Isaiah 44:20
He tends ashes. A deceived mind has lead him astray. It cannot be his life, nor can he say, "There's a lie in my right hand."
Isaiah 46:8
"Remember this, and stand firm; take it again to heart, you rebels.
Isaiah 48:13
Moreover, my hands laid the earth's foundation, and my right hand spread out the heavens. I call out to them, and they stand up together.
Isaiah 51:13
As a result, you have forgotten the LORD who made you, who stretched out the heavens and laid the earth's foundations, and you live in constant fear every day because of the oppressor's fury, since he's ready to destroy. Now where is the oppressor's fury?
Jeremiah 10:8-12
Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece of wood!
Romans 1:19-21
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God himself has made it plain to them.
Romans 1:28
Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.
Romans 3:1-2
What advantage, then, does the Jew have, or what value is there in circumcision?