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ISAIAH
40.29
- And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure,
- And weighed the mountains in scales,
- And the hills in a balance?
- 13Who hath meted out the spirit of the Lord?
- Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?
- 14With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him,
- And taught Him in the path of right,
- And taught Him knowledge,
- And made Him to know the way of discernment?
- 15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket,
- And are counted as the small dust of the balance;
- Behold the isles are as a mote in weight.
- 16And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel,
- Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings.
- 17All the nations are as nothing before Him;
- They are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.
- 18To whom then will ye liken God?
- Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?
- 19The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted,
- And the goldsmith spread over with gold,
- The silversmith casting silver chains?
- 20A holm-oak is set apart,
- He chooseth a tree that will not rot;
- He seeketh unto him a cunning craftsman
- To set up an image, that shall not be moved.
- 21Know ye not? hear ye not?
- Hath it not been told you from the beginning?
- Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?
- 22It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth,
- And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
- That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,
- And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
- 23That bringeth princes to nothing;
- He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.
- 24Scarce are they planted,
- Scarce are they sown,
- Scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth;
- When He bloweth upon them, they wither,
- And the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
- 25To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal?
- Saith the Holy One.
- 26Lift up your eyes on high,
- And see: who hath created these?
- He that bringeth out their host by number,
- He calleth them all by name;
- By the greatness of His might, and for that He is strong in power,
- Not one faileth.
- 27Why sayest thou, O Jacob,
- And speakest, O Israel:
- 'My way is hid from the Lord,
- And my right is passed over from my God'?
- 28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard
- That the everlasting God, the Lord,
- The Creator of the ends of the earth,
- Fainteth not, neither is weary?
- His discernment is past searching out.
- 29He giveth power to the faint;
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