strkjv@Isaiah:40:1
@
Comfort
ye,
comfort
ye my
people
,
saith
your
God
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:2
@
Speak
ye
comfortably
to
Jerusalem
, and
cry
unto her, that her
warfare
is
accomplished
, that her
iniquity
is
pardoned
: for she hath
received
of the
LORDS
hand
double
for all her
sins
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:3
@ The
voice
of him that
crieth
in the
wilderness
,
Prepare
ye the
way
of the
LORD
, make
straight
in the
desert
a
highway
for our
God
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:4
@ 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
:
strkjv@Isaiah:40:5
@ 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.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:6
@ The
voice
said
,
Cry
. And he
said
, What shall I
cry
? All
flesh
is
grass
, and all the
goodliness
thereof is as the
flower
of the
field
:
strkjv@Isaiah:40:7
@ The
grass
withereth
, the
flower
fadeth
: because the
spirit
of the
LORD
bloweth
upon it:
surely
the
people
is
grass
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:8
@ The
grass
withereth
, the
flower
fadeth
: but the
word
of our
God
shall
stand
for
ever
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:9
@ O
Zion
, that bringest good
tidings
, get thee
up
into the
high
mountain
; O
Jerusalem
, that bringest good
tidings
, lift
up
thy
voice
with
strength
; lift it
up
, be not
afraid
;
say
unto the
cities
of
Judah
, Behold your
God
!
strkjv@Isaiah:40:10
@ Behold, the
Lord
GOD
will
come
with
strong
hand, and his
arm
shall
rule
for him: behold, his
reward
is with him, and his
work
before
him.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:11
@ 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 that are with
young
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:12
@ 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
?
strkjv@Isaiah:40:13
@ Who hath
directed
the
Spirit
of the
LORD
, or being his
counsellor
H6098hath
taught
him?
strkjv@Isaiah:40:14
@ 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
?
strkjv@Isaiah:40:15
@ 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
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:16
@ And
Lebanon
is
not
sufficient
to
burn
, nor the
beasts
thereof
sufficient
for a burnt
offering
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:17
@ All
nations
before him are as nothing; and they are
counted
to him less than
nothing
, and
vanity
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:18
@ To whom then will ye
liken
God
? or what
likeness
will ye
compare
unto him?
strkjv@Isaiah:40:19
@ The
workman
melteth
a graven
image
, and the
goldsmith
spreadeth
it over with
gold
, and
casteth
silver
chains
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:20
@ He that is so
impoverished
that he hath no
oblation
chooseth
a
tree
that will not
rot
; he
seeketh
unto him a
cunning
workman
to
prepare
a graven
image
, that shall not be
moved
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:21
@ 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
?
strkjv@Isaiah:40:22
@ 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
:
strkjv@Isaiah:40:23
@ That
bringeth
the
princes
to nothing; he
maketh
the
judges
of the
earth
as
vanity
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:24
@ Yea, they shall not be
planted
; yea, they shall not be
sown
: yea, their
stock
shall not take
root
in the
earth
: and he shall also
blow
upon them, and they shall
wither
, and the
whirlwind
shall
take
them away as
stubble
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:25
@ To whom then will ye
liken
me, or shall I be
equal
?
saith
the Holy
One
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:26
@ Lift
up
your
eyes
on
high
, and
behold
who hath
created
these things, that bringeth
out
their
host
by
number
: he
callet
them all by
names
by the
greatness
of his
might
, for that he is
strong
in
power
; not
one
faileth
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:27
@ Why
sayest
thou, O
Jacob
, and
speakest
, O
Israel
, My
way
is
hid
from the
LORD
, and my
judgment
is passed
over
from my
God
?
strkjv@Isaiah:40:28
@ Hast thou not
known
? hast thou not
heard
, that 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
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:29
@ He
giveth
power
to the
faint
@; and to them that have no
might
he
increaseth
strength
.
strkjv@Isaiah:40:30
@ Even the
youths
shall
faint
and be
weary
, and the young
men
shall
utterly
fall
:
strkjv@Isaiah:40:31
@ 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
; and they shall
walk
, and not
faint
.
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