Yesaya 40:18

40:18 To whom can you compare God?

To what image can you liken him?

Yesaya 46:5

46:5 To whom can you compare and liken me?

Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!

Yesaya 14:4

14:4 you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: ¹ 

“Look how the oppressor has met his end!

Hostility ²  has ceased!

Yesaya 29:8

29:8 It will be like a hungry man dreaming that he is eating,

only to awaken and find that his stomach is empty. ³ 

It will be like a thirsty man dreaming that he is drinking,

only to awaken and find that he is still weak and his thirst unquenched. ⁴ 

So it will be for the horde from all the nations

that fight against Mount Zion.

Yesaya 40:31

40:31 But those who wait for the Lord’s help ⁵  find renewed strength;

they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, ⁶ 

they run without growing weary,

they walk without getting tired.

[14:4]  ¹ tn Heb “you will lift up this taunt over the king of Babylon, saying.”

[14:4]  ² tc The word in the Hebrew text (מַדְהֵבָה, madhevah) is unattested elsewhere and of uncertain meaning. Many (following the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a) assume a dalet-resh (ד-ר) confusion and emend the form to מַרְהֵבָה (marhevah, “onslaught”). See HALOT 548 s.v. II *מִדָּה and HALOT 633 s.v. *מַרְהֵבָה.

[29:8]  ³ tn Or “that he [or “his appetite”] is unsatisfied.”

[29:8]  ⁴ tn Or “that he is faint and that he [or “his appetite”] longs [for water].”

[40:31]  ⁵ tn The words “for the Lord’s help” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[40:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “they rise up [on] wings like eagles” (TEV similar).