Isaiah 40:18–25

^18aTo whom then will you liken God?

Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

¹⁹As for the ^agraven images, a craftsman casts it,

A goldsmith ^bplates it with gold,

And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

²⁰He who is too impoverished to make such a contribution

Chooses a ^atree that does not rot;

He seeks out for himself a wise craftsman

To ¹prepare a graven image that ^bwill not be shaken.

^21aDo you not know? Have you not heard?

Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?

Have you not understood ^bfrom the foundations of the earth?

²²It is He who ¹inhabits above the ^2acircle of the earth,

And its inhabitants are like ^bgrasshoppers;

It is He who ^cstretches out the heavens like a ^dcurtain

And spreads them out like a ^etent to inhabit.

²³It is He who reduces ^arulers to nothing,

Who ^bmakes the ¹judges of the earth utterly formless.

²⁴¹Scarcely have they been planted;

²Scarcely have they been sown;

³Scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,

But He merely blows on them, and they ⁴wither,

And the ^astorm carries them away like stubble.

²⁵“^aTo whom then will you liken Me

That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One.