mkjv - Isaiah:38-40

mkjv@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, So says the LORD, Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,

mkjv@Isaiah:38:3 @ and said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done the good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:4 @ Then came the Word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,

mkjv@Isaiah:38:5 @ Go and say to Hezekiah: So says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:6 @ And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. And I will defend this city.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:7 @ And this [shall be] a sign to you from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken:

mkjv@Isaiah:38:8 @ behold, I will bring again the shadow of the steps, which has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten steps backward. So the sun returned ten steps, by which steps it had gone down.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:9 @ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

mkjv@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I have numbered the rest of my years.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, I shall not see Jah, Jehovah, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more with the people of the world.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:12 @ My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I place [Him] before me until morning, [that], as a lion, so He breaks all my bones; from day even until night You make an end of me.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:14 @ Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O LORD, I am pressed down; be surety for me.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:15 @ What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted; I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:16 @ O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these [is] the life of my spirit; so You will recover me, and make me to live.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:18 @ For the grave cannot praise You, death can [not] rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I [do] this day; the father shall make Your truth known to the sons.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:20 @ For the LORD [is] for my salvation; and we will sing my songs on the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:21 @ For Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs and rub [it] on the ulcer; and he will live.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:22 @ And Hezekiah said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

mkjv@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezekiah rejoiced over them, and let them see the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not let them see.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And where did they come from to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country to me, from Babylon.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:4 @ Then he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in my house they have seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not let them see.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:5 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the Word of Jehovah of hosts.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:7 @ And of your sons which shall issue from you, which you shall bring out, they shall take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:8 @ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which you have spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:2 @ 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 the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:3 @ The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the LORD, make straight a highway in the desert for our God.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:4 @ 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;

mkjv@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 has spoken.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:6 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of the LORD blows on it; surely the people [is] grass.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass withers, the flower fades; but the Word of our God shall stand forever.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:9 @ 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!

mkjv@Isaiah:40:10 @ 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.

mkjv@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 with young.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:12 @ 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?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, and what man taught Him counsel?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:14 @ 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?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:15 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:16 @ And Lebanon [is] not enough to burn, nor the beasts of it enough [for] a burnt offering.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:17 @ All nations before Him [are] as nothing; and to Him they are thought to be less than nothing, and vanity.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:19 @ The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:20 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:21 @ 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?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:22 @ [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;

mkjv@Isaiah:40:23 @ who brings the rulers to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:24 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:25 @ To whom then will you compare Me, or [am] I equaled? says the Holy One.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:26 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD and my judgment has passed over from my God?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:28 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:29 @ [He] gives power to the weary; and to him with no vigor; He increases strength.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:30 @ Even the young shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall;

mkjv@Isaiah:40:31 @ but those who wait on 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:1 @ Keep silence before Me, O coasts; and peoples shall renew strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together for judgment.