Isaiah 40:25 - Exposition

To whom then, etc.? This is a summary, to conclude the section ( Isaiah 40:19-24 ), as Isaiah 40:18 concludes the preceding one. If God is paramount over idols ( Isaiah 40:19 , Isaiah 40:20 ) and over nature ( Isaiah 40:22 ) and over humanity ( Isaiah 40:23 , Isaiah 40:24 ), to whom can he be likened? Is he not altogether unique and incomparable? Saith the Holy One (comp. Isaiah 57:15 ). Isaiah's special designation of God, at once pregnant and almost peculiar (see the comment on Isaiah 1:4 ), is "the Holy One of Israel." This is, here and in Isaiah 57:15 , abbreviated.