Isaiah 40:14-24

14 Whom did he consult, to gain understanding? Who taught him how to judge, taught him what he needed to know, showed him how to discern?
15 The nations are like a drop in a bucket, they count like a grain of dust on the scales. The islands weigh as little as specks of dust.
16 The L'vanon would not suffice for fuel or its animals be enough for burnt offerings.
17 Before him all the nations are like nothing. He regards them as less than nothing.
18 With whom, then, will you compare God? By what standard will you evaluate him?
19 An image made by a craftsman, which a goldsmith overlays with gold, for which he then casts silver chains?
20 A man too poor to afford an offering chooses a piece of wood that won't rot, then seeks out a skilled artisan to prepare an image that won't fall over.
21 Don't you know? Don't you hear? Haven't you been told from the start? Don't you understand how the earth is set up?
22 He who sits above the circle of the earth - for whom its inhabitants appear like grasshoppers - stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He reduces princes to nothing, the rulers of the earth to emptiness.
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely their stem taken root in the ground, when he blows on them, they dry up, and the whirlwind carries them off like straw.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.