Isaiah 40:18-26

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁸ Who will you compare God with?
What likeness will you compare Him to?^(A)
19 To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?^(B)
20 To one who shapes a pedestal,
choosing wood that does not rot?^[a]
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not fall over.^(C)

²¹ Do you not know?^(D)
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?^(E)
22 God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.^(F)
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth^(G)
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.^(H)
23 He reduces princes to nothing^(I)
and makes judges of the earth irrational.
²⁴ They are barely planted, barely sown,
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.^(J)

²⁵ “Who will you compare Me to,^(K)
or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
²⁶ Look up^[b] and see:
who created^(L) these?
He brings out the starry host by number;
He calls all of them by name.^(M)
Because of His great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.