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19 Is he an image which the carpenter has made and the goldsmith has overlaid with gold and fastened with silver chains? 20 He selects wood that is not worm-eaten; then chooses a carpenter, who fashions it with his skill, to make an image that will not be moved. 21 Have you not heard? Have you not known? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them as a tent to dwell in; 23 Who brings princes to nought; and makes the judges of the earth as if they were nothing. 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown; yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth; and he shall blow upon them and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25 To whom then will you liken me, or to whom shall I be equal? says the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold: who has created these things? Who brings out their host by number; he called them all by name, by the greatness of his glory and the strength of his power; not one is missing. 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and say, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD and justice is not rendered by my God? 28 Have you not known, have you not heard, that God is the LORD for ever, who has created the ends of the earth? that he does not faint, neither is weary? and that there is no searching of his understanding? 29 He gives power to the weary, and to them that are stricken with disease he increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall helplessly stumble; 31 But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall grow wings as a dove; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:19-31, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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