Isaiah 40:21-25

Complete Jewish Bible

²¹ Don’t you know? Don’t you hear?
Haven’t you been told from the start?
Don’t you understand how the earth is set up?
²² He who sits above the circle of the earth —
for whom its inhabitants appear like grasshoppers —
stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
spreads them out like a tent to live in.
²³ He reduces princes to nothing,
the rulers of the earth to emptiness.
²⁴ Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely their stem taken root in the ground,
when he blows on them, they dry up,
and the whirlwind carries them off like straw.
²⁵ “With whom, then, will you compare me?
With whom am I equal?” asks the Holy One.