Isa 46:5
To whom will ye liken me, and make {me} equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
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To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? {who} among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
The portion of Jacob {is} not like them: for he {is} the former of all {things}; and Israel {is} the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts {is} his name.
Who {is} like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, {dwelleth...: Heb. exalteth himself to dwell}
Forasmuch as {there is} none like unto thee, O LORD; thou {art} great, and thy name {is} great in might.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Among the gods {there is} none like unto thee, O Lord; neither {are there any works} like unto thy works.
Who {is} like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who {is} like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful {in} praises, doing wonders? {gods: or, mighty ones?}
O LORD God of hosts, who {is} a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
Who being the brightness of {his} glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Remember the former things of old: for I {am} God, and {there is} none else; {I am} God, and {there is} none like me,
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness {of any thing} that {is} in heaven above, or that {is} in the earth beneath, or that {is} in the water under the earth:
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Thy way, O God, {is} in the sanctuary: who {is so} great a God as {our} God?
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, {as} Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which {were} in Telassar?
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: {blindness: or, hardness}
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because {there was} no shepherd. {idols: Heb. teraphims} {were...: or, answered that, etc}
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
Forasmuch as {there is} none like unto thee, O LORD; thou {art} great, and thy name {is} great in might.