Isaiah
Chapters 40:16-22
Revised Version 1885
16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19The graven image, a workman melted it, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
20He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.
21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22It is he that sitteth upon 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: