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nations
are
as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh
up the isles as a very little thing.
16
And Lebanon
is
not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering.
17
All nations before him
are
as nothing; and they are counted to
him less than nothing, and vanity.
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 the foundations of the earth?
22
It is
he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof
are
as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth
them out as a tent to dwell in:
23
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the
earth as vanity.
24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall
not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind
shall take them away as stubble.
25
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the
Holy One.
26
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things,
that bringeth out
their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that
he is
strong in power; not one faileth.
27
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is
hid from the L
ORD
, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,
that
the everlasting God, the L
ORD
, the Creator of
the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
there is
no searching of his understanding.
29
He giveth power to the faint; and to
them that have
no might he increaseth strength.
30
Even the
youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31
But they that wait upon the
L
ORD
shall renew
their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not
be weary;
and
they shall walk, and not faint.
CHAPTER 41
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew
their
strength: let them come near;
then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2
Who raised up the righteous
man
from
the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made
him
rule over kings? he gave
them
as the dust to his sword,
and
as driven stubble to his bow.
3
He pursued them,
and
passed
safely;
even
by the way
that
he had not gone with his feet.
4
Who hath wrought and done
it,
calling
the generations from the beginning? I the L
ORD
, the first, and with the last; I
am
he.
5
The isles saw
it,
and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6
They helped every one his
neighbour; and
every one
said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7
So the carpenter encouraged
the goldsmith,
and
he that smootheth
with
the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready
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