Isaiah Chapter 40
40:1 | Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. |
40:2 | Speak ye comfortably to ![]() |
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. |
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: |
40:5 | And the ![]() ![]() |
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: |
40:7 | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the ![]() |
40:8 | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. |
40:9 | O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O ![]() |
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. |
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. |
40:12 | Who hath measured the ![]() ![]() |
40:13 | Who hath directed the ![]() |
40:14 | With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? |
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. |
40:16 | And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. |
40:17 | All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. |
40:18 | To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? |
40:19 | The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with ![]() |
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. |
40:21 | Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the ![]() ![]() |
40:22 | [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the ![]() |
40:23 | That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the ![]() |
40:24 | ![]() ![]() |
40:25 | To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. |
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 ![]() |
40:27 | Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O ![]() |
40:28 | Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the ![]() |
40:29 | He giveth ![]() |
40:30 | Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: |
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. |