The Lord's Equal

Read this passage from Isaiah. What is God's response to the people? What were they asking for?

"To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
Lift your eyes and look at those heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and strength, not one of them is missing.
Why do you say, o Jacob, and complain O Israel, 'My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God'?
Do you now know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. he will not grow weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youth grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

Isaiah 40:25-31