King James Version
Isaiah 40:25 in the King James Version says “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 40 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.”
Isaiah 40:25 · KJV
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
KJV Study — Public Domain
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“To whom then will ye liken”
H1819to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
“me or shall I be equal”
H7737properly, to level, i.e., equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e., counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, et
“the Holy One”
H6918sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) god (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
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