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.