21. Do you not know? Have you not heard?Was it not told you from the beginning?Have you not understood from the founding of the earth?
22. The one who is enthroned above the vault of the earth,its inhabitants like grasshoppers,Who stretches out the heavens like a veiland spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
23. Who brings princes to noughtand makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
24. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,scarcely their stem rooted in the earth,When he breathes upon them and they wither,and the stormwind carries them away like straw.
25. To whom can you liken me as an equal?says the Holy One.
26. Lift up your eyes on highand see who created these:He leads out their army and numbers them,calling them all by name.By his great might and the strength of his powernot one of them is missing!
27. Why, O Jacob, do you say,and declare, O Israel,“My way is hidden from the Lord,and my right is disregarded by my God”?
28. Do you not know?Have you not heard?The Lord is God from of old,creator of the ends of the earth.He does not faint or grow weary,and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny.
29. He gives power to the faint,abundant strength to the weak.
30. Though young men faint and grow weary,and youths stagger and fall,
31. They that hope in the Lord will renew their strength,they will soar on eagles’ wings;They will run and not grow weary,walk and not grow faint.