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Here Is Your God!

Isaiah 40:25

In 11 translations

BSB
“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
KJV
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
WEB
“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
ASV
To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? saith the Holy One.
LSV
And to whom do you liken Me, || And [to whom] I equal? Says the Holy One.
YLT
And unto whom do ye liken Me, And [am] I equal? saith the Holy One.
DBY
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
DRC
And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One?
GNV
To whom nowe will ye liken me, that I should be like him, saith the Holy one?
JPS
To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal? saith the Holy One.
LXXE
Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאֶל־מִ֥י תְדַמְּי֖וּנִי וְאֶשְׁוֶ֑ה יֹאמַ֖ר קָדֽוֹשׁ׃
LXX-Br
Νῦν οὖν τίνι με ὡμοιώσατε, καὶ ὑψωθήσομαι; εἶπεν ὁ ἅγιος.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 40:18To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
  • Deuteronomy 4:33Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
  • Deuteronomy 4:15–18So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of…
  • Deuteronomy 5:8You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

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