16. And all Lebanon is not sufficient for the fire, nor all the beasts thereof sufficient for the sacrifice.
17. All the Gentiles are as nothing before him, and they are counted to him as vanity and as less than nothing.
18. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19. The workman prepares the graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold and casts silver chains.
20. He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto himself a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
21. Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not been taught since the land was founded?
22. He is seated upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; he stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
23. He brings the powerful to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as if they had never been,
24. As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their stock had never taken root in the earth; even blowing upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
25. To whom then will ye liken me, or what shall ye compare me to? saith the Holy One.