Isaiah 40:12-22

12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

13Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?

14Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

15Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

16Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

17All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

18To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

19An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.

20He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.

21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;