Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him?

New American Standard Bible

To whom then will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

King James Version

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Holman Bible

Who will you compare God with?
What likeness will you compare Him to?

International Standard Version

"To whom, then, will you compare me, the One who is God? Or to what image will you liken me?

American Standard Version

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Amplified


To whom then will you liken God?
Or with what likeness will you compare Him?

Bible in Basic English

Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

Darby Translation

To whom then will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Julia Smith Translation

And to whom will ye liken God? what likeness will ye compare to him?

King James 2000

To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare unto him?

Lexham Expanded Bible

And to whom will you liken God? And to what likeness will you compare him?

Modern King James verseion

To whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"To whom then will ye liken God? Or what similitude will ye set up unto him?

NET Bible

To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

New Heart English Bible

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

The Emphasized Bible

Unto whom then can ye liken GOD? Or, what likeness, can ye compare unto him?

Webster

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?

World English Bible

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

Youngs Literal Translation

And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
To whom then will ye liken
דּמה 
Damah 
Usage: 30

God
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

דּמוּת 
D@muwth 
Usage: 25

will ye compare
ערך 
`arak 
Usage: 76

References

American

Fausets

Context Readings

Comfort For God's People

17 All the nations are as nothing before him. They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity. 18 To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him? 19 The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.

Cross References

Isaiah 46:5

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?

Acts 17:29

Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

1 Samuel 2:2

There is none holy as LORD, for there is none besides thee, neither is there any rock like our God.

Exodus 8:10

And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word, that thou may know that there is none like LORD our God.

Isaiah 40:25

To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.

Exodus 15:11

Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Exodus 20:4

Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Exodus 9:14

For this time I will send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, that thou may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

Deuteronomy 33:26

There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides upon the heavens for thy help, and in his excellency on the skies.

Psalm 86:8-10

There is none like thee among the gods, O LORD, nor like thy works.

Psalm 89:6

For who in the clouds can be compared to LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like LORD,

Psalm 89:8

O LORD God of hosts, who is a mighty one like thee, O LORD? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

Psalm 113:5

Who is like LORD our God who has his seat on high,

Isaiah 46:9

Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. [I am] God, and there is none like me,

Jeremiah 10:6

There is none like thee, O LORD. Thou are great, and thy name is great in might.

Jeremiah 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like these. For he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.

Colossians 1:15

who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Hebrews 1:3

Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the

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