Isaiah 40:18-26

Modern English Version

¹⁸ To whom then will you liken God?
    Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
¹⁹ The workman melts a graven image,
    and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold,
    and casts silver chains.
²⁰ He who is too impoverished for such an offering
    chooses a tree that will not rot;
he seeks for himself a skillful workman
    to prepare a graven image that shall not totter.

²¹ Have you not known?
    Have you not heard?
Has it not been told to you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
²² It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth,
    and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers,
who stretches out the heavens as a curtain,
    and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.
²³ He brings the princes to nothing;
    He makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
²⁴ Scarcely shall they be planted;
    scarcely shall they be sown;
    scarcely shall their tree take root in the earth,
when He will also blow on them,
    and they will wither,
and the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.

²⁵ To whom then will you liken Me,
    that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One.
²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high,
    and see who has created these things,
who brings out their host by number;
    He calls them all by name,
by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power;
    not one of them is missing.