Isaiah 40 : 1 (MKJV)
Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.
Isaiah 40 : 2 (MKJV)
Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 40 : 3 (MKJV)
The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight a highway in the desert for our God.
Isaiah 40 : 4 (MKJV)
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked places shall be made level, and the rough places smooth;
Isaiah 40 : 5 (MKJV)
and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
Isaiah 40 : 6 (MKJV)
The voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the beauty of it is as the flower of the field.
Isaiah 40 : 7 (MKJV)
The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of Jehovah blows on it; surely the people is grass.
Isaiah 40 : 8 (MKJV)
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the Word of our God shall stand forever.
Isaiah 40 : 9 (MKJV)
Go up for yourself on the high mountain, bringer of good tidings to Zion. Lift up your voice with strength, O you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem; lift up, do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Isaiah 40 : 10 (MKJV)
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with a strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him; behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.
Isaiah 40 : 11 (MKJV)
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 with young.
Isaiah 40 : 12 (MKJV)
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out the heavens with a span? And who has shut up the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40 : 13 (MKJV)
Who has directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and what man taught Him counsel?
Isaiah 40 : 14 (MKJV)
With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and made known the way of understanding to Him?
Isaiah 40 : 15 (MKJV)
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the scales; behold, He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.
Isaiah 40 : 16 (MKJV)
And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor the beasts of it enough for a burnt offering.
Isaiah 40 : 17 (MKJV)
All nations before Him are as nothing; and to Him they are thought to be less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40 : 18 (MKJV)
To whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
Isaiah 40 : 19 (MKJV)
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Isaiah 40 : 20 (MKJV)
He too poor for that offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he looks for a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not totter.
Isaiah 40 : 21 (MKJV)
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah 40 : 22 (MKJV)
It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
Isaiah 40 : 23 (MKJV)
who brings the rulers to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
Isaiah 40 : 24 (MKJV)
Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown. Yes, their stump shall not take root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble.
Isaiah 40 : 25 (MKJV)
To whom then will you compare Me, or am I equaled? says the Holy One.
Isaiah 40 : 26 (MKJV)
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold, who has created these, who brings out their host by number? He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power; not one is lacking.
Isaiah 40 : 27 (MKJV)
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Jehovah and my judgment has passed over from my God?
Isaiah 40 : 28 (MKJV)
Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not grow weak nor weary? There is no searching of His understanding.
Isaiah 40 : 29 (MKJV)
He gives power to the weary; and to him with no vigor; He increases strength.
Isaiah 40 : 30 (MKJV)
Even the young shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall;
Isaiah 40 : 31 (MKJV)
but those who wait on Jehovah 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.
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