Isaiah 40 : 1 (LXXEN)
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God.
Isaiah 40 : 2 (LXXEN)
Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.
Isaiah 40 : 3 (LXXEN)
*Mt 3:3; Joh 1:23 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
Isaiah 40 : 4 (LXXEN)
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: *Lu 3:5, with which Alex. agrees and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.
Isaiah 40 : 5 (LXXEN)
And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken it.
Isaiah 40 : 6 (LXXEN)
The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? 1 Pe :24 All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:
Isaiah 40 : 8 (LXXEN)
The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.
Isaiah 40 : 9 (LXXEN)
O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say unto the cities of Juda, Behold your God!
Isaiah 40 : 10 (LXXEN)
Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and his arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Isaiah 40 : 11 (LXXEN)
He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.
Isaiah 40 : 12 (LXXEN)
Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?
Isaiah 40 : 13 (LXXEN)
*Ro 11:34 Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?
Isaiah 40 : 14 (LXXEN)
Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgement, or who has taught him the way of understanding; [1) Alex. +Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? Ro 11:35; Heb. omits]
Isaiah 40 : 15 (LXXEN)
since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle?
Isaiah 40 : 16 (LXXEN)
And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole-burnt offering:
Isaiah 40 : 17 (LXXEN)
and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.
Isaiah 40 : 18 (LXXEN)
To whom have ye compared the Lord? and with what likeness have ye compared him?
Isaiah 40 : 19 (LXXEN)
Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, and made it a similitude?
Isaiah 40 : 20 (LXXEN)
For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved.
Isaiah 40 : 21 (LXXEN)
Will ye not know? will ye not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have ye not known the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah 40 : 22 (LXXEN)
It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah 40 : 23 (LXXEN)
he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.
Isaiah 40 : 24 (LXXEN)
For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.
Isaiah 40 : 25 (LXXEN)
Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.
Isaiah 40 : 26 (LXXEN)
Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.
Isaiah 40 : 27 (LXXEN)
For say not thou, O Jacob, and why hast thou spoken, Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgement, and has departed?
Isaiah 40 : 28 (LXXEN)
And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah 40 : 29 (LXXEN)
He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
Isaiah 40 : 30 (LXXEN)
For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:
Isaiah 40 : 31 (LXXEN)
but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.
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