Isaiah 40:25

“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:15Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

Deuteronomy 5:8“You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Psalms 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

Isaiah 46:5“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same?

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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