17. All nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness.
18. And to whom would you liken Ěl? And what likeness would you compare to Him?
19. The workman moulds a graven image, and the goldsmith overspreads it with gold, and the silversmith casts silver chains.
20. He who is too poor for such an offering chooses a tree that does not rot. He seeks for himself a skilled craftsman to prepare a carved image that does not totter.
21. Did you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22. It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
23. who brings princes to naught, shall make the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
24. Hardly have they been planted, hardly have they been sown, hardly has their stock taken root in the earth, when He shall blow on them and they wither, and a whirlwind take them away like stubble.
25. “And to whom then do you liken Me, or to whom am I compared?” says the Set-apart One.
26. Lift up your eyes on high and see. Who has created these? He who is bringing out their host by number, He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power – not one is missing.
27. Why do you say, O Ya‛aqoḇ, and speak, O Yisra’ĕl, “My way is hidden from יהוה, and my rights are overlooked by my Elohim”?
28. Did you not know? Have you not heard? The everlasting Elohim, יהוה, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
29. He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength.
30. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men stumble and fall,
31. but those who wait on יהוה renew their strength, they raise up the wing like eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and do not faint.