Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

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

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
hath it not been told
נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

have ye not understood
בּין 
Biyn 
Usage: 169

מסדה מוסדה 
Mowcadah 
Usage: 13

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Isaiah 40:21

References

American

Fausets

Context Readings

Comfort For God's People

20 He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto himself a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. 21 Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 He is seated upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; he stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

Cross References

Acts 14:17

Nevertheless he did not leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Psalm 19:1-5

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows the work of his hands.

Psalm 50:6

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is the judge. Selah.

Psalm 115:8

Let those that make them become like unto them, and every one that trusts in them.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: women shall come and set them on fire: for this is not a people of understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.

Isaiah 44:20

The ashes feed him; his deceived heart inclines him, that he not deliver his soul and say, Is not the lie at my right hand?

Isaiah 46:8

Remember this, and be ashamed, bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.

Isaiah 48:13

Certainly my hand founded the earth, and my right hand measured the heavens with the palm; as I named them, they appeared together.

Isaiah 51:13

And thou hast already forgotten the LORD thy maker that has stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day the fury of the oppressor when he was ready to destroy. But, where is the fury of the oppressor?

Jeremiah 10:8-12

But they shall become altogether carnal and foolish. The stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Romans 1:19-21

because that which is known of God is manifest to them; for God has showed it unto them.

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a perverse understanding, to do those things which are not convenient,

Romans 3:1-2

What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

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