Have You no Heard?

Maybe not?

You can look at this opening scripture as a rhetorical question but many in this world still have not heard and still do not see. This is on those who have known, who have heard. Isaiah is speaking to a world that is living as though they have not heard when by all accounts they have heard because Isaiah and others like him have been declaring it.

Do Ye not know?

Commentary on the Old Testament First Prophecy—Ch. 40

Do ye not hear? Is it not proclaimed to you from the beginning? Have ye not obtained an insight into the foundations of the earth?”

I tell you today that in many cases it is not that we have not heard, it is that we have grown stubborn to , “and shut its ears against the teaching of revelation and tradition, which had come down from the very beginning of its history”

and shut its ears against the teaching of revelation and tradition, which had come down from the very beginning of its history

Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (1996). Commentary on the Old Testament (Vol. 7, p. 399). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.

Isaiah then compares the creator to the created, (NRSV)

22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,

Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (1996). Commentary on the Old Testament (Vol. 7, p. 399). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.

and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

and spreads them like a tent to live in;

23 who brings princes to naught,

and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

This passage seems to be all about perspective. Wouldn’t you agree?

The stage is set over the next few verses placing God in His proper place. Isn’t this a reminder of what the author states in the beginning as something we have known forever?

Remember that we are only insignificant people, often thought of as grasshoppers, here today and gone tomorrow. But God is sitting on the dome of the world forever.