Isaiah 40:1 WEB: 


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Isaiah 40:1: 
Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God.

Isaiah 40:2: 
Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 40:3: 
The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level 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 uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:

Isaiah 40:5: 
and the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.

Isaiah 40:6: 
The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.

Isaiah 40:7: 
The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.

Isaiah 40:8: 
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

Isaiah 40:9: 
You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don't be afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!

Isaiah 40:10: 
Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

Isaiah 40:11: 
He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.

Isaiah 40:12: 
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky 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 has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or being his counselor has taught him?

Isaiah 40:14: 
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shown to him the way of understanding?

Isaiah 40:15: 
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.

Isaiah 40:16: 
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the animals of it sufficient for a burnt offering.

Isaiah 40:17: 
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 40:18: 
To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?

Isaiah 40:19: 
The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.

Isaiah 40:20: 
He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.

Isaiah 40:21: 
Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isaiah 40:22: 
[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;

Isaiah 40:23: 
who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 40:24: 
Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Isaiah 40:25: 
To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.

Isaiah 40:26: 
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Isaiah 40:27: 
Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?

Isaiah 40:28: 
Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.

Isaiah 40:29: 
He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Isaiah 40:30: 
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Isaiah 40:31: 
but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.