17All the nations are as nothing before Him,
         They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

18To whom then will you liken God?
         Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

19As for the idol, a craftsman casts it,
         A goldsmith plates it with gold,
         And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

20He who is too impoverished for such an offering
         Selects a tree that does not rot;
         He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman
         To prepare an idol that will not totter.

21Do 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?

22It 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.

23He it is who reduces rulers to nothing,
         Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

24Scarcely have they been planted,
         Scarcely have they been sown,
         Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,
         But He merely blows on them, and they wither,
         And the storm carries them away like stubble.

25“To whom then will you liken Me
         That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One.

26Lift up your eyes on high
         And see who has created these stars,
         The One who leads forth their host by number,
         He calls them all by name;
         Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,
         Not one of them is missing.

27Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,
         “My way is hidden from the LORD,
         And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

28Do you not know? Have you not heard?
         The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth
         Does not become weary or tired.
         His understanding is inscrutable.

29He gives strength to the weary,
         And to him who lacks might He increases power.

30Though youths grow weary and tired,
         And vigorous young men stumble badly,

31Yet those who wait for the LORD
         Will gain new strength;
         They will mount up with wings like eagles,
         They will run and not get tired,
         They will walk and not become weary.

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