en_tn/isa/40/21.md

Isaiah continues speaking to God's people.

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?

Isaiah uses these questions to emphasize that the people should know how great God is. AT: "You certainly do know and have heard! It has been told to you from the beginning; even from when God created the earth!" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)

He is the one who sits above the horizon of the earth

AT: "God rules over the entire earth."

the inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him

A grasshopper is a small insect. This emphasizes how small and weak people are before God. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)

He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to live in

This emphasizes God's power to create the heavens.