Catholic Public Domain Version
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been announced to you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth? "
— Isaiah 40:21, Catholic Public Domain 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?”
“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? ”
“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?”
“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?”
“Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth?”
“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?”
“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?”
Therefore, to whom would you liken God? Or with what image would you replace him?
Should the workman cast a statue? Or has the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?
He has chosen strong wood that will not decay. The skillful artisan seeks a way to set up an idol that cannot be moved.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been announced to you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth?
He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.
He has brought those who examine what is secret to nothingness. He has brought the judges of the earth to emptiness.
And certainly, their stalk was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the ground. He has suddenly blown across them, and they have withered, and a whirlwind will carry them away like chaff.