Isaiah 40:18

Therefore, to whom would you liken God? Or with what image would you replace him?

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In The King James Version

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

In Context

17All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.

19Should the workman cast a statue? Or has the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?

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Cross References

Exodus 9:14For at this turn, I will send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants, and upon your people. So may you know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Exodus 20:4You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor a likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on earth below, nor of those things which are in the waters under the earth.

1 Samuel 2:2Nothing is holy as the Lord is holy. For there is no other beside you. And nothing is strong as our God is strong.

Psalms 89:7For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.

Psalms 113:5What happened to you, O sea, so that you fled, and to you, O Jordan, so that you were turned back again?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:13-18

Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord , or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? 15 Behold, the… Read the whole commentary →

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