Isaiah 40:17-19

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

¹⁸To whom then will you liken God,
    or what likeness compare with him?
¹⁹The idol! a workman casts it,
    and a goldsmith overlays it with gold,
    and casts for it silver chains.

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