Isaiah 40:1WEB
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
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Isaiah 40:1WEB
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
Isaiah 40:2WEB
“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out 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.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 40:3WEB
The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 40:4WEB
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
Isaiah 40:5WEB
Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 40:6WEB
The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
Isaiah 40:7WEB
The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 40:8WEB
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:9WEB
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 40:10WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 40:11WEB
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
Isaiah 40:12WEB
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:13WEB
Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 40:14WEB
Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40:15WEB
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
Isaiah 40:16WEB
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
Isaiah 40:17WEB
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:18WEB
To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
Isaiah 40:19WEB
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
Isaiah 40:20WEB
He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
Isaiah 40:21WEB
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah 40:22WEB
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 out like a tent to dwell in,
Isaiah 40:23WEB
who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
Isaiah 40:24WEB
They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
Isaiah 40:25WEB
“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
Isaiah 40:26WEB
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army 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 40:27WEB
Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 40:28WEB
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Isaiah 40:29WEB
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Isaiah 40:30WEB
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
Isaiah 40:31WEB
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.