Isaiah 40:18

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

American Standard Version

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 are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

19The image, a workman hath cast [it], and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth [for it] silver chains.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:14For I will this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.

Exodus 20:4Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness [of any thing] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

1 Samuel 2:2There is none holy as Jehovah; For there is none besides thee, Neither is there any rock like our God.

Psalms 86:8There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; Neither [are there any works] like unto thy works.

Psalms 89:7A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him?

Psalms 113:5Who is like unto Jehovah our God, That hath his seat on high,

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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