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Isaiah 40
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God’s People Are Comforted

40Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.H5162H5162H5971H559H430 2Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.H1696H3820H3389H7121H6635H4390H5771H7521H3947H3068H3027H3718H2403 3A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.H6963H7121H4057H6437H1870H3068H3474H6160H4546H430 4Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.H1516H5375H2022H1389H8213H6121H4334H7406H1237 5Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all people shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."H3519H3068H1540H1320H7200H3162H6310H3068H1696 6A voice says, "Cry out!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All people are grass, their constancy is like the flower of the field.H6963H559H7121H559H7121H1320H2682H2617H6731H7704 7The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.H2682H3001H6731H5034H7307H3068H5380H403H5971H2682 8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.H2682H3001H6731H5034H1697H430H6965H5769 9Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, do not fear; say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!"H6726H1319H5927H1364H2022H3389H1319H7311H6963H3581H7311H3372H559H5892H3063H430 10See, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.H136H3069H935H2389H2220H4910H7939H6468H6440 11He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead the mother sheep.H7462H5739H7462H6908H2922H2220H5375H2436H5095H5763 12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?H4058H4325H8168H8505H8064H2239H3557H6083H776H7991H8254H2022H6425H1389H3976 13Who has directed the spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has instructed him?H8505H7307H3068H376H6098H3045 14Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice? Who taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?H3289H995H3925H734H4941H3925H1847H3045H1870H8394 15Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.H1471H4752H1805H2803H7834H3976H5190H339H1851 16Lebanon would not provide fuel enough, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.H3844H369H1767H1197H2416H1767H5930 17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.H1471H2803H657H8414 18To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?H1819H410H1823H6186 19An idol? —A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.H2796H5258H6459H6884H7554H2091H6884H3701H7577 20As a gift one chooses mulberry wood —wood that will not rot—then seeks out a skilled artisan to set up an image that will not topple.H5533H5534H8641H977H6086H7537H1245H2450H2796H3559H6459H4131 21Have 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?H3045H8085H5046H7218H995H4146H776 22It 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 like a tent to live in;H3427H2329H776H3427H2284H5186H8064H1852H4969H168H3427 23who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.H5414H7336H6213H8199H776H8414 24Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.H5193H2232H1503H8327H776H5398H3001H5591H5375H7179 25To whom then will you compare me, or who is my equal? says the Holy One.H1819H7737H559H6918 26Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing.H5375H5869H4791H7200H1254H3318H6635H4557H7121H8034H7230H202H533H3581H376H5737 27Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?H559H3290H1696H3478H1870H5641H3068H4941H5674H430 28Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.H3045H8085H5769H430H3068H1254H7098H776H3286H3021H2714H8394 29He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless.H5414H3581H3287H202H7235H6109 30Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted;H5288H3286H3021H970H3782H3782 31but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.H6960H3068H2498H3581H5927H83H5404H7323H3021H3212H3286


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