5 Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?
Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.
There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works.
For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power. Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.
To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;
Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
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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.