Isaiah 40:21-24

English Standard Version

^21 (A)Do you not know? Do you not hear?
    Has it not been told you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
²² It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
    and its inhabitants are ^(B)like grasshoppers;
^(C)who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
    and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
^23 (D)who brings princes to nothing,
    and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

²⁴ Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
    scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
    ^(E)and the tempest carries them off like stubble.