Isaiah 40:18

World English Bible (2000)

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

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  • Isa 46:5 : 5 "To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
  • 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
  • Isa 40:25 : 25 "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
  • Exod 8:10 : 10 He said, "Tomorrow." He said, "Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is none like Yahweh our God.
  • Exod 9:14 : 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
  • Exod 15:11 : 11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
  • Exod 20:4 : 4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
  • Deut 33:26 : 26 "There is none like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, In his excellency on the skies.
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
  • Ps 86:8-9 : 8 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds. 9 All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name. 10 For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
  • Ps 89:6 : 6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
  • Ps 89:8 : 8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Isa 46:9 : 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
  • Jer 10:6 : 6 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.
  • Jer 10:16 : 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
  • Ps 113:5 : 5 Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 46:5-6
    2 verses
    84%

    5 "To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

    6 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.

  • Isa 40:25
    83%

    25 "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.

  • Isa 44:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

    10 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

  • Isa 40:17
    81%

    17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

  • Isa 40:19-21
    3 verses
    81%

    19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

    20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

    21 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

  • Jer 16:20
    77%

    20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

  • Ps 135:18
    75%

    18 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    75%

    4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    75%

    18 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

    19 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

  • Isa 41:24
    74%

    24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Job 40:9
    74%

    9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

  • Ps 135:15
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    15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Ps 115:8
    73%

    8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Exod 20:4
    73%

    4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Ps 89:6
    73%

    6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

  • Isa 44:17
    73%

    17 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!"

  • Ps 86:8
    72%

    8 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

  • Isa 40:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

    13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?

  • Job 4:17
    72%

    17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • Isa 41:29
    72%

    29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • Deut 5:8
    72%

    8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

  • Rom 9:20
    72%

    20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

  • 1 Chr 17:20
    72%

    20 Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

  • Ps 97:7
    71%

    7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

  • Isa 17:8
    71%

    8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

  • Ps 18:31
    71%

    31 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

  • Ps 113:5
    71%

    5 Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,

  • Isa 37:19
    71%

    19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Ezek 20:32
    71%

    32 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • Jer 10:6
    71%

    6 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.

  • Isa 45:20
    71%

    20 "Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    71%

    18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Isa 42:17
    71%

    17 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

  • Jer 10:8
    71%

    8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

  • Isa 29:16
    71%

    16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?"

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Isa 45:9
    71%

    9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'

  • Lev 26:1
    70%

    1 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.

  • Exod 15:11
    70%

    11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?