Isaiah 40:12-17

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¹² Nobody has done what God has done!
    He measured all the water of the seas in one hand.
    He used his hand to measure the whole sky.
    He carefully weighed the soil of the earth.
    He carefully weighed the mountains in his scales,
    and the hills too.
¹³ Nobody understands the mind of the Lord.
Nobody can be his advisor,
    to tell him what he should do.
¹⁴ He does not ask anyone to be his guide.
    Nobody can teach him the proper way to do things.
    Nobody can give him knowledge.
    Nobody can teach him how to understand things.
¹⁵ The Lord looks at the nations
    as if they are a little bit of water in a bucket.
They are like dust on his scales.
    He weighs the islands as he would weigh dust.
¹⁶ All the trees from Lebanon's forests are not enough
    to make a fire for his altar.
All its animals are not enough to offer to him
    as burnt offerings.
¹⁷ All the nations in the world are not important to the Lord.
    He sees them as empty and useless.