Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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?
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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Shama`
Nagad
Ro'sh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
20
choosing wood that does not rot?
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not fall over.
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Acts 14:17
although He did not leave Himself without a witness,
Psalm 19:1-5
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
and the sky
Psalm 50:6
for God is the Judge.
Psalm 115:8
as are all who trust in them.
Isaiah 27:11
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.
Therefore their Maker
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
Isaiah 44:20
His deceived mind has led him astray,
and he cannot deliver himself,
or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Isaiah 46:8
take it to heart, you transgressors!
Isaiah 48:13
and My right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summoned them,
they stood up together.
Isaiah 51:13
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth.
You are in constant dread all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor,
who has set himself to destroy.
But where is the fury of the oppressor?
Jeremiah 10:8-12
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!
Romans 1:19-21
since what can be known
Romans 1:28
And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.
Romans 3:1-2
So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?