Isaiah 40:26 “Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the s…”

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

World English Bible

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

American Standard Version

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Geneva Bible 1599

Lift vp your eyes on hie, and beholde who hath created these things, and bringeth out their armies by nomber, and calleth them all by names? by the greatnesse of his power and mightie strength nothing faileth.

Darby Translation

Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who hath created these things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth.

Young's Literal Translation

Lift up on high your eyes, And see — who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And [he is] strong in power) not one is lacking.

Bible in Basic English

Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

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Cross references

“Lift”

Isaiah 51:6 Deuteronomy 4:19 Job 31:26–28 Psalm 19:1 Psalm 8:3 Psalm 8:4

Isaiah 51:6 · BSB

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and M…

Deuteronomy 4:19 · BSB

When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Job 31:26–28 · BSB

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Psalm 19:1 · BSB

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

Psalm 8:3 · BSB

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

Psalm 8:4 · BSB

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

“who hath”

Isaiah 48:13 Isaiah 44:24 Isaiah 45:7 Psalm 148:3–6 Psalm 102:25 Genesis 2:1

Isaiah 48:13 · BSB

Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.

Isaiah 44:24 · BSB

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

Isaiah 45:7 · BSB

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Psalm 148:3–6 · BSB

Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.

Psalm 102:25 · BSB

In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Genesis 2:1 · BSB

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

“bringeth”

Psalm 147:4 Psalm 147:5

Psalm 147:4 · BSB

He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.

Psalm 147:5 · BSB

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

“by the greatness”

Jeremiah 32:17–19 Psalm 89:11–13

Jeremiah 32:17–19 · BSB

“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

Psalm 89:11–13 · BSB

The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.

Also

Isaiah 42:5 Isaiah 34:16

Isaiah 42:5 · BSB

This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 34:16 · BSB

Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

27Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

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