Isaiah 40:18-26

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁸ So to whom will you compare God?
What image can you compare to him?
¹⁹ A craftsman casts the idol,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold.
He forges silver chains for it.
²⁰ He chooses mulberry wood as an offering,^[a]
wood that will not rot.
He looks for a skillful craftsman
    to erect an idol that will not fall over.

²¹ Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood it from the founding of the earth?
²² He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth.
To him its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and he spreads them out like a tent to live in.
²³ He is the one who reduces dignitaries to nothing.
He makes the judges of the world useless.
²⁴ They have hardly been planted.
They have hardly been sown.
Their stem has hardly taken root in the earth.
Then he blows on them, and they dry up.
A driving storm carries them away like chaff.

²⁵ To whom can you compare me as if we were equals?
says the Holy One.
²⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and see who created these things.
See who brings out their army in great number
and calls them all by name.
Because of his great strength and mighty power,
not one of them is missing.