Isaiah 40:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 none holy as Yahweh; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any rock like our God.
  • Isa 40:25 : 25 To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? 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 have you 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 hosts, 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 Hosts 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
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    5To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

    6Some 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%

    25To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.

  • Isa 44:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed.

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

  • Isa 40:17
    81%

    17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

  • Isa 40:19-21
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    81%

    19The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.

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

    21Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

  • Jer 16:20
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    20Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

  • Ps 135:18
    75%

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

  • Ps 115:4
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    4Their 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?

    19Woe 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 the midst of it.

  • Isa 41:24
    74%

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

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    74%

    17Every 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.

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

  • Job 40:9
    74%

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

  • Ps 135:15
    73%

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

  • Ps 115:8
    73%

    8Those 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%

    14Every 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.

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

  • Ps 89:6
    73%

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

  • Isa 44:17
    73%

    17The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.

  • Ps 86:8
    72%

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

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16Lest 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%

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

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

  • 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%

    29Behold, 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%

    20But 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%

    20Yahweh, 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%

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

  • Isa 17:8
    71%

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

  • Ps 18:31
    71%

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

  • Ps 113:5
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    5Who is like Yahweh, our God, Who has his seat on high,

  • Isa 37:19
    71%

    19and 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%

    32and 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%

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

  • Isa 45:20
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18and 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%

    17They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.

  • Jer 10:8
    71%

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

  • Isa 29:16
    71%

    16You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of 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%

    28There 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%

    9Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds 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%

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