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25 To whom can you liken me as an equal?
    says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high
    and see who created[a] these:
He leads out their army and numbers them,
    calling them all by name.
By his great might and the strength of his power
    not one of them is missing!(A)
27 Why, O Jacob, do you say,[b]
    and declare, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
    and my right is disregarded by my God”?

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Footnotes

  1. 40:26 Created: see note on Gn 1:1–2:3. By name: for he is their Creator.
  2. 40:27–28 The exiles, here called Jacob-Israel (Gn 32:29), must not give way to discouragement: their Lord is the eternal God.

25 “To whom will you compare me?(A)
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.(B)
26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:(C)
    Who created(D) all these?
He who brings out the starry host(E) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,(F)
    not one of them is missing.(G)

27 Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?(H)

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