Isaiah 40 : 1 (RV)
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isaiah 40 : 2 (RV)
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; that she hath received of the LORD�S hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 40 : 3 (RV)
The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 40 : 4 (RV)
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:
Isaiah 40 : 5 (RV)
and the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah 40 : 6 (RV)
The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Isaiah 40 : 7 (RV)
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Isaiah 40 : 8 (RV)
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah 40 : 9 (RV)
O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain: O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!
Isaiah 40 : 10 (RV)
Behold, the Lord GOD will come as a mighty one, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.
Isaiah 40 : 11 (RV)
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, cf15i and shall gently lead those that give suck.
Isaiah 40 : 12 (RV)
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven 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 (RV)
Who hath directed the spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
Isaiah 40 : 14 (RV)
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40 : 15 (RV)
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.
Isaiah 40 : 16 (RV)
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
Isaiah 40 : 17 (RV)
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40 : 18 (RV)
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Isaiah 40 : 19 (RV)
The graven image, a workman melted cf15i it , and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth cf15i for it silver chains.
Isaiah 40 : 20 (RV)
He that is too impoverished for cf15i such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Isaiah 40 : 21 (RV)
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah 40 : 22 (RV)
cf15i It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah 40 : 23 (RV)
that bringeth princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Isaiah 40 : 24 (RV)
Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
Isaiah 40 : 25 (RV)
To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal cf15i to him ? saith the Holy One.
Isaiah 40 : 26 (RV)
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
Isaiah 40 : 27 (RV)
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed away from my God?
Isaiah 40 : 28 (RV)
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah 40 : 29 (RV)
He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
Isaiah 40 : 30 (RV)
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isaiah 40 : 31 (RV)
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; they shall walk, and not faint.
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