Isaiah 40:13-31 ▼

13 Who has directed the Spirit of YHWH, or informed Him as the man of His counsel?

14 With whom did he counsel, and who gave Him understanding and instructed Him in the path of justice? And who taught Him knowledge, and informed Him the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and they have been reckoned like dust of the scales! Behold, the islands He lifts up like fine dust,

16 and Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, and its beasts are not sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All the nations are as nothing before Him, they are counted by Him as less than nothing and emptiness.

18 And to whom would you? liken God? And what likeness will you? arrange for Him?

19 To an idol a craftsman casts, and a metalworker overlays it with gold and fits with chains of silver?

20 One bereft of a contribution chooses a tree not rotten, and a skillful craftsman seeks out for himself to prepare a carved image that will not topple?

21 Do you? not know? Have you? not heard? Has it not been declared from the beginning to you?? Have you? not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 He is sitting above the circle of the earth, and its dwellers are like grasshoppers; He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and He spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

23 The One giving the rulers to nothingness, He makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

24 Yes, they are hardly planted; yes, they are hardly sown; Yes their stem has hardly taken root in the earth. And also He will blow on them, and they will wither, and the tempest will carry them off like the stubble.

25 “And to whom will you? liken Me? Or who is My equal?” Says the Holy One.

26 Lift up your? eyes on high and see who has created these things—the One having brought forth by number their host. He calls to them all by name; by the greatness of might and the strength of power, not one is missing.

27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way Is hidden from YHWH, and my claim is passed over by my God”?

28 Have you not known? Or have you not heard? God everlasting is YHWH, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint and He does not grow weary; there is no searching out of His understanding.

29 He gives power to the weary, and to those with no might, He increases strength.

30 Even youths will faint and grow weary, and young men will stumble and fall;

31 and those waiting on YHWH will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.