Isaiah 40
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Isaiah 40:18-28

18To whom then will you liken God? To what likeness will you compare Him?

19To an idol? A craftsman casts it, a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

20One too poor for such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to prepare him an idol that will not totter.

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

22He sits above the circle of the earth— its inhabitants are like grasshoppers— He stretches out the skies like a curtain, spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

23He reduces princes to nothing. He makes the judges of the earth a confusion.

24Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely their stem takes root in the earth, when He blows on them and they wither, and a storm carries them off as stubble.

25“To whom then will you liken Me? Or who is My equal?” says the Holy One.

26Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who created these? The One who brings out their host by number, the One who calls them all by name. Because of His great strength and vast power, not one is missing.

27Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from Adonai, and the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

28Have you not known? Have you not heard? Adonai is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

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