Isaiah:40

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bbe @Isaiah:40:1 @Give comfort , give comfort , to my people , says your God . bbe @Isaiah:40:2 @Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem , crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended , that her punishment is complete ; that she has been rewarded by the Lord 's hand twice over for all her sins . bbe @Isaiah:40:3 @A voice of one crying , Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord , make level in the lowland a highway for our God . bbe @Isaiah:40:4 @Let every valley be lifted up , and every mountain and hill be made low , and let the rough places become level , and the hilltops become a valley , bbe @Isaiah:40:5 @And the glory of the Lord will be made clear , and all flesh will see it together , for the mouth of the Lord has said it . bbe @Isaiah:40:6 @A voice of one saying , Give a cry ! And I said , What is my cry to be ? All flesh is grass , and all its strength like the flower of the field . bbe @Isaiah:40:7 @The grass becomes dry , the flower is dead ; because the breath of the Lord goes over it : truly the people is grass . bbe @Isaiah:40:8 @The grass is dry , the flower is dead ; but the word of our God is eternal . bbe @Isaiah:40:9 @You who give good news to Zion , get up into the high mountain ; you who give good news to Jerusalem , let your voice be strong ; let it be sounding without fear ; say to the towns of Judah , See , your God ! bbe @Isaiah:40:10 @See , the Lord God will come as a strong one , ruling in power : see , those made free by him are with him , and those whom he has made safe go before him . bbe @Isaiah:40:11 @He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep ; with his arm he will get it together , and will take up the lambs on his breast , gently guiding those which are with young . bbe @Isaiah:40:12 @In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured ? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers ? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure ? who has taken the weight of the mountains , or put the hills into the scales ? bbe @Isaiah:40:13 @By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided , or who has been his teacher ? bbe @Isaiah:40:14 @Who gave him suggestions , and made clear to him the right way ? who gave him knowledge , guiding him in the way of wisdom ? bbe @Isaiah:40:15 @See , the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket , and like the small dust in the scales : he takes up the islands like small dust . bbe @Isaiah:40:16 @And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with , or all its cattle enough for a burned offering . bbe @Isaiah:40:17 @All the nations are as nothing before him ; even less than nothing , a thing of no value . bbe @Isaiah:40:18 @Whom then is God like , in your opinion ? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him ? bbe @Isaiah:40:19 @The workman makes an image , and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it , and makes silver bands for it . bbe @Isaiah:40:20 @The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering , a wood which will not become soft ; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved . bbe @Isaiah:40:21 @Have you no knowledge of it ? has it not come to your ears ? has not news of it been given to you from the first ? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base ? bbe @Isaiah:40:22 @It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth , and the people in it are as small as locusts ; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch , and made ready like a tent for a living-place . bbe @Isaiah:40:23 @He makes rulers come to nothing ; the judges of the earth are of no value . bbe @Isaiah:40:24 @They have only now been planted , and their seed put into the earth , and they have only now taken root , when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry , and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass . bbe @Isaiah:40:25 @Who then seems to you to be my equal ? says the Holy One . bbe @Isaiah:40:26 @Let your eyes be lifted up on high , and see : who has made these ? He who sends out their numbered army : who has knowledge of all their names : by whose great strength , because he is strong in power , all of them are in their places . bbe @Isaiah:40:27 @Why do you say , O Jacob , such words as these , O Israel , The Lord 's eyes are not on my way , and my God gives no attention to my cause ? bbe @Isaiah:40:28 @Have you no knowledge of it ? has it not come to your ears ? The eternal God , the Lord , the Maker of the ends of the earth , is never feeble or tired ; there is no searching out of his wisdom . bbe @Isaiah:40:29 @He gives power to the feeble , increasing the strength of him who has no force . bbe @Isaiah:40:30 @Even the young men will become feeble and tired , and the best of them will come to the end of his strength ; bbe @Isaiah:40:31 @But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength ; they will get wings like eagles : running , they will not be tired , and walking , they will have no weariness .

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