Do You Not Know?
Adapted From Isaiah 40 (NIV)(These first few lines are memorized and spoken to a God focal point.)
Reader 1: God?
Reader 2: Where are You?
Reader 3: Why won't you answer?
Reader 1: Why have you forsaken me?
All: Why?
(Long silence. The readers open their book.)
Reader 1: Do you not know?
Reader 2: Have you not heard?
Reader 3: Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Reader 1: Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
Reader 2: He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers.
All: Do you not know?
Reader 1: He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Both: Do you not know?
Reader 3: He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
Reader 1: To nothing
Reader 2: To nothing
All: to nothing
Reader 3: No sooner are they planted,
Reader 1 & 3: no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
Reader: 2 "To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?"
All: says the Holy One.
Reader 1: Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
All: Who created all these?
Reader 1: He who brings out the starry host one
Reader 2: by one,
Reader 3: by one
Reader 2: and calls them each by name.
Reader 3: Because?
All: Do you not know?
Reader 1: Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Reader 2: Do you not know?
Reader 3: Have you not heard?
All: The LORD is the everlasting God,
Reader 2: The Creator of the ends of the earth.
Reader 1: He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
All: Do you not know?
Reader 3: He gives strength to the weary
All: Do you not know?
Reader 1: and increases the power of the weak.
Reader 2: Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
Reader 3: but those who wait?
Reader 1: Who wait?
Reader 2: Who wait?
All: Who wait
Reader 1: in the LORD will renew their strength.
Reader 2: They will soar on wings like eagles;
They will run and not be weary
They will walk
Reader 3: and not be faint.
Reader 1: Do
Reader 2: You
Reader 3: Not
Reader 1: Know?
