6. A voice is saying, “Cry out!” So I said, “What shall I cry out?” “All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
7. The grass withers, the flower fades. For the breath of Adonai blows on it. Surely the people are grass.
8. The grass withers, the flower fades. But the word of our God stands forever.”
9. Get yourself up on a high mountain, you who bring good news to Zion! Lift up your voice with strength, you who bring good news to Jerusalem! Lift it up! Do not fear! Say to the cities of Judah: “Behold your God!”
10. Look, Adonai Elohim comes with might, with His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.
11. Like a shepherd, He tends His flock. He gathers the lambs in His arms carries them in his bosom, and gently guides nursing ewes.
12. Who has measured the waters in the palm of His hand, or measured out heaven with a span, or calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, or weighed the mountains in scales, or the hills in a balance?
13. Who can fathom the Ruach Adonai? Or instruct Him as His counselor?
14. With whom did He consult, and who instructed Him? Who taught Him in the path of justice or taught Him knowledge? Who informed Him about the way of understanding?
15. Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and count as a speck of dust on the scales. Behold, the islands weigh as fine dust.
16. Lebanon is not enough to burn, or its animals enough for a burnt offering.
17. All the nations are as nothing before Him. By Him they are accounted null and void.
18. To whom then will you liken God? To what likeness will you compare Him?
19. To an idol? A craftsman casts it, a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
20. One too poor for such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to prepare him an idol that will not totter.
21. Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?