Isaiah 40:18–25

¹⁸Can you compare God to anything?

Can you compare him to an image of anything?

¹⁹An idol is formed by a craftsman,

and a goldsmith covers it with gold

and makes silver chains for it.

²⁰A poor person cannot buy those expensive statues,

so he finds a tree that will not rot.

Then he finds a skilled craftsman

to make it into an idol that will not fall over.

²¹Surely you know. Surely you have heard.

Surely from the beginning someone told you.

Surely you understand how the earth was created.

²²God sits on his throne above the circle of the earth,

and compared to him, people are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the skies like a piece of cloth

and spreads them out like a tent to sit under.

²³He makes rulers unimportant

and the judges of this world worth nothing.

²⁴They are like plants that are placed in the ground,

like seeds that are planted.

As soon as they begin to grow strong,

he blows on them and they die,

and the wind blows them away like chaff.

²⁵God, the Holy One, says, “Can you compare me to anyone?

Is anyone equal to me?”