Isaiah 40:17-27 (Douay-Rheims)  View In My Bible 17 All nations
are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted
to him as nothing, and vanity. 18 To whom then have you likened
God? or what image will you make for him? 19 Hath the workman
cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold,
or the silversmith with plates of silver? 20 He hath chosen
strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful workman seeketh
how he may set up an idol that may not be moved. 21 Do you not
know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the
beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the
heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell
in. 23 He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing,
that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 And surely
their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the
earth: suddenly