Isaiah 40:21

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Isaiah 40:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

20 To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?

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

22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

23 He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 27:11

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Isaiah 46:8

Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!

Psalms 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

Psalms 19:2

Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

Psalms 19:3

Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

Psalms 19:4

their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

Psalms 19:5

Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

Psalms 115:8

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Jeremiah 10:9

Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz— the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

Jeremiah 10:12

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Acts 14:17

Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

Romans 1:19

For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Romans 1:20

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

Romans 1:21

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 3:1

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Romans 3:2

Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.