Isaiah:40

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* Comfort ye , comfort ye , my people , Saith your God . * Speak ye encouragement to Jerusalem , and declare to her , That her hard service is ended ; That her iniquity is expiated ; That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins . * A voice crieth : "Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah ; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God ! * Every valley shall be exalted , And every mountain and hill be made low ; The crooked shall become straight , And the rough places plain . * For the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed , And all flesh shall see it together ; For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it !" * A voice said , Proclaim ! And I said , What shall I proclaim ? All flesh is grass , And all its comeliness as the flower of the field . * The grass withereth , the flower fadeth , When the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it . Truly the people is grass . * The grass withereth , the flower fadeth , But the word of our God shall stand forever . * Get thee up on the high mountain , O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion ; Lift up thy voice with strength , thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem ; Lift it up ; be not afraid ; Say to the cities of Judah , Behold your God ! * Behold , the Lord Jehovah shall come with might , And his arm shall rule for him ; Behold , his reward is with him , And his recompense before him . * He shall feed his flock like a shepherd ; He shall gather up the lambs in his arms , And carry them in his bosom , And gently lead the nursing ewes . * Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand , And meted out the heavens with his span , And gathered the dust of the earth into a measure , And weighed the mountains in scales , And the hills in a balance ? * Who hath searched out the spirit of Jehovah , Or , being his counsellor , hath taught him ? * With whom took he counsel , and who instructed him , And taught him the path of justice , And taught him knowledge , And showed him the way of understanding ? * Behold , the nations are as a drop from a bucket , And are accounted as the small dust of the balance ; Behold , he taketh up the isles as a very little thing , * And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire , Nor its beasts for a burnt –offering . * All the nations are as nothing before him ; They are accounted by him as less than nothing , and vanity . * To whom then will ye liken God , And what likeness will ye compare unto him ? * The workman casteth an image , And the smith overlayeth it with gold , And casteth for it silver chains . * He that is too poor to make an oblation Chooseth a piece of wood that will not rot ; He seeketh for himself a skilful artificer , To prepare an image that shall not be moved . * Do ye not know ? Have ye not heard ? Hath it not been declared to you from the beginning ? Have ye not considered the foundations of the earth ? * It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth , And the inhabitants are to him as grasshoppers ; That stretcheth out the heavens as a canopy , And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in ; * That bringeth princes to nothing , And reduceth the rulers of the earth to vanity . * Yea , scarcely are they planted , scarcely are they sown , Scarcely hath their stem taken root in the ground , When He bloweth upon them and they wither , And the whirlwind beareth them away like stubble . * To whom then will ye liken me , And to whom shall I be compared ? Saith the Holy One . * Lift up your eyes to the heavens , and behold ! Who hath created these ? He draweth forth their host by number , He calleth them all by name ; Through the greatness of his strength and the mightiness of his power , Not one of them faileth to appear . * Why sayest thou , O Jacob , and speakest , O Israel , "My way is hidden from Jehovah , My cause passeth by before my God "? * Do ye not know ? Have ye not heard ? Jehovah is an everlasting God , The creator of the ends of the earth ; He fainteth not , nor is he weary ; His understanding is unsearchable . * He giveth power to the faint ; To the feeble abundant strength . * The youths shall faint and be weary , And the young warriors shall utterly fall . * But they that trust in Jehovah 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 .

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