weighs all the mountains in a single scale and all the hills in a double balance. Now both the terms of elevation in verse 4 are used again here in the plural to assert that God assesses them critically. This last picture is the funniest of all to me. Imagine, if you will, a single scale sitting on a table. And there is God, tossing on Mount McKinley, Mount Everest, all the Himalayas, K2, the Alps, the Rockies and the Tetons, the Cascades and the Appalachians, Mount Kilamanjaro and what’s left of
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