Isaiah 40:25

To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? 1 saith the Kadosh. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

In Context

24Indeed, they shall not be planted; 1 indeed, they shall not be sown; 1 indeed, their stem shall not take root ba'aretz (in the ground); 1 and He shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, 1 and the se'arah (storm wind) shall take them away like the kash (straw, stubble, chaff). 1

26Lift up your eyes marom (on high, i.e. into the heavens), and behold: 1 Who hath created + 40:26 T.N. This chapter needs to be seen also in light of Acts chapter 2, and Jerusalemʼs Besurah HaGeulah proclaimed there. these things, 1 that bringeth out their tzeva'a (host, legions) by mispar (number); 1 He calleth them all b'shem (by name); 1 because of the abundance of His power and the might of His ko'ach, 1 not one [star] is missing. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:15Be shomer over yourselves, therefore; for ye saw no manner of temunah on the yom that Hashem spoke unto you in Chorev out of the midst of the eish;

Deuteronomy 5:8Thou shalt not make thee any pesel, or any temunah of anything that is in Shomayim above, or that is in Ha'Aretz beneath, or that is in the mayim beneath ha'aretz;

Psalms 89:7For who in the heavens can be compared unto Hashem? 1 Who among the bnei elim can be likened unto Hashem? 1

Isaiah 46:5Lemi (to whom) will ye compare Me, and make Me equal, 1 and liken Me, that we may be comparable? 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:19-27

Vanity of Idols. ( b. c. 708.) 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from… Read the whole commentary →

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