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Isaiah 40:18

Verse 18 of 31. The 40th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

14Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

15Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

16Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

19A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

20He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.

21Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.