18 aTo whom then will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare with Him?
19 As for the agraven images, a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith bplates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.
20 He who is too impoverished to make such a contribution
Chooses a atree that does not rot;
He seeks out for himself a wise craftsman
To prepare a graven image that bwill not be shaken.
21 aDo you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood bfrom the foundations of the earth?
22 It is He who inhabits above the acircle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like bgrasshoppers;
It is He who cstretches out the heavens like a dcurtain
And spreads them out like a etent to inhabit.
23 It is He who reduces arulers to nothing,
Who bmakes the judges of the earth utterly formless.
24 Scarcely have they been planted;
Scarcely have they been sown;
Scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
But He merely blows on them, and they wither,
And the astorm carries them away like stubble.
25 “aTo whom then will you liken Me
That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One.
26 aLift up your eyes on high
And see bwho has created these stars,
The cOne who leads forth their host by number,
He calls them all by name;
Because of the dgreatness of His vigor and the strength of His power,
eNot one of them is missing.