15. Certainly the nations are as a drop in a bucket,and are counted as the small dust of the balance;He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.
16. Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,nor the beasts sufficient as a burnt offering.
17. All nations before Him are as nothing,and they are counted by Him as less than nothingand meaningless.
18. To whom then will you liken God?Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
19. The workman melts a graven image,and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold,and casts silver chains.
20. He who is too impoverished for such an offeringchooses a tree that will not rot;he seeks for himself a skillful workmanto prepare a graven image that shall not totter.
21. Have you not known?Have you not heard?Has it not been told to you from the beginning?Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22. It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth,and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers,who stretches out the heavens as a curtain,and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.
23. He brings the princes to nothing;He makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
24. Scarcely shall they be planted;scarcely shall they be sown;scarcely shall their tree take root in the earth,when He will also blow on them,and they will wither,and the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.
25. To whom then will you liken Me,that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One.
26. Lift up your eyes on high,and see who has created these things,who brings out their host by number;He calls them all by name,by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power;not one of them is missing.
27. Why do you say, O Jacob,and assert, O Israel,“My way is hidden from the Lord,and my justice escapes the notice of my God”?