5 To whom will ye like me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal `to him'? saith the Holy One.
There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; Neither `are there any works' like unto thy works.
For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,
Who is like unto Jehovah our God, That hath his seat on high,
There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.
who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
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Commentary on Isaiah 46 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 46
God, by the prophet here, designing shortly to deliver them out of their captivity, prepared them for that deliverance by possessing them with a detestation of idols and with a believing confidence in God, even their own God.
Isa 46:1-4
We are here told,
Isa 46:5-13
The deliverance of Israel by the destruction of Babylon (the general subject of all these chapters) is here insisted upon, and again promised, for the conviction both of idolaters who set up as rivals with God, and of oppressors who were enemies to the people of God.