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Rh SELECTION 4 THE MAJESTY OF GOD

Isaiah xi HO hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span,
 * And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
 * With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice,

And taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
 * Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance:

Behold he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
 * And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.

All the nations are as nothing before him;
 * They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

To whom then will ye liken God?
 * Or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning?
 * Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers.
 * That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

That bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
 * Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number:

He calleth them all by name;
 * By the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, Israel,
 * My way is hid from the Lord, and the justice due to me is

passed away from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard?