Isa-40
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v1
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
v2
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
v3
A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
v4
Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.
v5
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”The Word of God Stands Forever
v6
A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
v7
The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.
v8
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.The Greatness of God
v9
Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!“
v10
Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
v11
He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
v12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
v13
Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel?
v14
Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
v15
Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
v16
Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
v17
All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
v18
To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?
v19
An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.
v20
He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.
v21
Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
v22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
v23
who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
v24
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
v25
To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
v26
Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.
v27
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
v28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
v29
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
v30
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
v31
but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.