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- Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your
- God.
-
- Isaiah 40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto
- her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is
- pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double
- for all her sins.
-
- Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the
- wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight
- in the desert a highway for our God.
-
- Isaiah 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every
- mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall
- be made straight, and the rough places plain:
-
- Isaiah 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
- and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the
- LORD hath spoken [it].
-
- Isaiah 40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I
- cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof
- [is] as the flower of the field:
-
- Isaiah 40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because
- the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people
- [is] grass.
-
- Isaiah 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the
- word of our God shall stand for ever.
-
- Isaiah 40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee
- up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good
- tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be
- not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
-
- Isaiah 40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong
- [hand], and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward
- [is] with him, and his work before him.
-
- Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he
- shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in
- his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with
- young.
-
- Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of
- his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and
- comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
- weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
- balance?
-
- Isaiah 40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or
- [being] his counsellor hath taught him?
-
- Isaiah 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and [who]
- instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and
- taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of
- understanding?
-
- Isaiah 40:15 Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a
- bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance:
- behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
-
- Isaiah 40:16 And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor
- the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
-
- Isaiah 40:17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and
- they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
-
- Isaiah 40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what
- likeness will ye compare unto him?
-
- Isaiah 40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the
- goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver
- chains.
-
- Isaiah 40:20 He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no
- oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh
- unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image,
- [that] shall not be moved.
-
- Isaiah 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it
- not been told you from the beginning? have ye not
- understood from the foundations of the earth?
-
- Isaiah 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the
- earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers;
- that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth
- them out as a tent to dwell in:
-
- Isaiah 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he
- maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
-
- Isaiah 40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they
- shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in
- the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall
- wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
-
- Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be
- equal? saith the Holy One.
-
- Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath
- created these [things], that bringeth out their host by
- number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of
- his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one
- faileth.
-
- Isaiah 40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O
- Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is
- passed over from my God?
-
- Isaiah 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,
- [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the
- ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there
- is] no searching of his understanding.
-
- Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to [them
- that have] no might he increaseth strength.
-
- Isaiah 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and
- the young men shall utterly fall:
-
- Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew
- [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
- they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk,
- and not faint.