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Isaiah 40:21

Verse 21 of 31. The 40th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

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,

23who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

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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.