Isaiah 40:18–25

¹⁸To whom then will ye liken •God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him? ¹⁹The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it. ²⁰He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering, chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. ²¹—Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth? ²²It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; ²³that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. ²⁴Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble. ²⁵To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.