Isaiah 46:5

To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

In Context

4I am he; and until ye shall have grown old, I am he: I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

6They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:11Who is like to thee among the gods, O Lord? 1 Who is like to thee? glorified in holiness, 1 Marvelous in glories, doing wonders. 1

Psalms 89:6In the morning let it flower, and pass away: 1 In the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up. 1

Psalms 113:5What ailed thee, O sea, that thou fleddest? 1 And thou Jordan, that thou wast turned back? 1

Isaiah 40:25Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.

Jeremiah 10:16Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 46:2-5

The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: 4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar… Read the whole commentary →

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