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## Isaiah 40:15-18 in Context (Verses 12–21 KJV)
 
 [12 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/12) ¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?*
 
 [13 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/13) Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or *being* his counsellor hath taught him?*
 
 [14 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/14) With whom took he counsel, and *who* instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?**
 
 [15 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/15) Behold, the 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 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/16) And Lebanon *is* not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/17) All nations before him *are* as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/18) ¶ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
 
 [19 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/19) The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/20) 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 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/21) 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?
 
[Isaiah 39](/kjv/isaiah/39) [Isaiah 41](/kjv/isaiah/41)

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