Isaiah 40:18–25

¹⁸And to whom will you liken God?

And to what likeness will you compare him?

¹⁹A craftsman pours out the idol,

and a goldsmithⁿ overlays it with gold,

and he smelts chains of silver.

²⁰The one who is too impoverished for a gift chooses wood that will not rot;

he seeks a skillful artisan for himself to set up an image that will not be knocked over.

²¹Have you not known?

Have you not heard?

Has it not been told to you from the beginning?^o

Have you not understood from the foundation of the earth?

²²He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth,

and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

the one who stretches out the heavens like a veil

and spreads them out like a tent to live in,

²³the one who brings^p princes to nothing;

he makes rulers of the earth like nothing.

²⁴Indeed, hardly are they planted; indeed, hardly are they sown;

indeed, hardly has their shoot taken root in the earth

when^q he blows on them and they wither,

and the tempest carries them like stubble.

²⁵“And to whom you will compare me, and am I equal?” says the holy one.