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## Isaiah 40:21-23 in Context (Verses 18–26 KJV)
 
 [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?
 
 [22 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/22) *It is* he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof *are* as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:*
 
 [23 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/23) That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/24) Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/25) To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/isaiah/40/26) Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these *things*, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that *he is* strong in power; not one faileth.
 
[Isaiah 39](/kjv/isaiah/39) [Isaiah 41](/kjv/isaiah/41)

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