Isaiah 40:18-31
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Who will you compare God with?
What likeness will you compare Him to?(A)
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To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?(B)
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To one who shapes a pedestal,
choosing wood that does not rot?(a)
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not fall over.(C)
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Do you not know?(D)
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?(E)
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God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.(F)
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth(G)
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.(H)
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He reduces princes to nothing(I)
and makes judges of the earth irrational.
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They are barely planted, barely sown,
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.(J)
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“Who will you compare Me to,(K)
or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
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Look up(b) and see:
who created(L) these?
He brings out the starry host by number;
He calls all of them by name.(M)
Because of His great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.
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Jacob, why do you say,
and Israel, why do you assert:
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?(N)
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Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Yahweh is the everlasting God,(O)
the Creator of the whole earth.
He never grows faint or weary;
there is no limit to His understanding.(P)
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He gives strength to the weary
and strengthens the powerless.
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Youths may faint and grow weary,
and young men stumble and fall,
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but those who trust in the Lord
will renew their strength;(Q)
they will soar on wings like eagles;(R)
they will run and not grow weary;
they will walk and not faint.

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 40:20: Or who is too poor for such an offering, or who chooses mulberry wood as a votive gift; Hb obscure
b. Isaiah 40:26: Lit Lift up your eyes on high

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