mkjv - Isaiah:40-43

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.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who raised up the righteous one from the east, called him to His foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? He gave them as the dust [to] his sword, [and] as driven stubble [to] his bow.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:3 @ He pursued them; he passed on in peace. He does not go [by] the way of his feet.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who has planned and done [it], calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, [am] the first and the last; I [am] He.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:5 @ The coastlands saw and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, and drew near, and came.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:6 @ They each one helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, Be strong.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:7 @ So the artisan strengthens the refiner, and he smoothing [with] the hammer, him who struck the anvil, saying of soldering, It [is] good. And he made it strong with nails; it will not totter.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:8 @ But you, Israel, [are] My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;

mkjv@Isaiah:41:9 @ whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from its sides. And I said to you, You [are] My servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:10 @ Do not fear; for I [am] with you; be not dismayed; for I [am] your God. I will make you strong; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:11 @ Behold, all those who were angered against you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing. And those who fight with you shall perish.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:12 @ You shall seek them, and shall not find them; men warring against you shall be as nothing, and as ceasing.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I, Jehovah your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:14 @ Do not fear, worm of Jacob [and] men of Israel; I will help you, says Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:15 @ Behold, I make you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shall make the hills like chaff.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:16 @ You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD [and] shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:17 @ The poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none; their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will plant the cedar in the wilderness, the acacia tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree. I will set the fir tree in the desert, [and] the pine, and the box tree together;

mkjv@Isaiah:41:20 @ so that they may see, and know, and look on, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:21 @ Bring near your cause, says the LORD; bring out your strong [reasons], says the King of Jacob.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them bring [them] out, and tell us what shall happen; let them reveal the former things, what they [are], that we may look on them and know the final end of them; or declare to us things to come.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:23 @ Reveal the near things after this, so that we may know that you [are] gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, so that we may be amazed and see together.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:24 @ Behold, you [are] of nothing, and your work of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:25 @ I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall come from the sunrise; he will call on My name. And he shall come [on] rulers as [on] mortar, and as the potter tramples clay.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, no one hears your words.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:27 @ I first [shall say] to Zion, Behold! Behold them! And I will give to Jerusalem one who bears good news.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:28 @ For I looked, and [there was] no man; and of these no counselor was, that I might ask and they could answer.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:29 @ Behold, they [are] all evil; their works [are] nothing; their images [are] wind and vanity.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:1 @ Behold My Servant, whom I uphold; My Elect, [in whom] My soul delights. I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring out judgment to the nations.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:2 @ He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:3 @ A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring out judgment to truth.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:4 @ He shall not fail nor be discouraged until He has set judgment in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His law.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:5 @ So says Jehovah God, [He] who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; He who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:6 @ I the LORD have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;

mkjv@Isaiah:42:7 @ to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:8 @ I [am] Jehovah; that [is] My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they happen, I cause you to hear.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:10 @ Sing to the LORD a new song; His praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and its fullness; coasts and their peoples.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:11 @ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice], the villages where Kedar dwells. Let the dwellers of the rock sing, let them shout from the mountain tops.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:12 @ Give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the coastlands.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:13 @ The LORD goes out as a warrior, He stirs up zeal like a man of wars; He shouts, yea, roars; He overcomes His enemies.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:14 @ I have kept silence from forever; I have been still and refrained Myself. [Now] I will cry like a woman in pangs of labor, I will pant and gasp at once.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their plants. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up the pools.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:16 @ And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. I will do these things to them, and not forsake them.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:17 @ They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, You [are] our gods.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:18 @ Hear, deaf ones; and blind ones look to see.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:19 @ Who [is] blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent? Who [is] blind as he who is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?

mkjv@Isaiah:42:20 @ You see many things, but do not pay attention. [Your] ears [are] open, but not any hears.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:21 @ The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness sake; He will magnify the Law and make [it] honorable.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; all of them snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison-houses; they have been taken, and none delivers them; a prize, and none says, Give back.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you will hear this? He will listen and hear for the time to come?

mkjv@Isaiah:42:24 @ Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? Did not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His law.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:25 @ So He has poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle. And it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay [it] to heart.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now so says the LORD who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel; Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called [you] by your name; you [are] Mine.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:2 @ When you pass through the waters, I [will be] with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; nor shall the flame kindle on you.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:3 @ For I [am] the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt [for] your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:4 @ Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you; therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:5 @ Fear not; for I [am] with you. I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:6 @ I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from far and My daughters from the ends of the earth;

mkjv@Isaiah:43:7 @ everyone who is called by My name; for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, [I have] made him.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:8 @ Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be brought together, and let the people be gathered; who among them can declare this and make us hear former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, [It is] true.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:10 @ You [are] My witnesses, says the LORD, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I [am] He. Before Me no God was formed, nor shall there be after Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:11 @ I, I [am] Jehovah; and [there is] none to save besides Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:12 @ I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when [there was] no strange [god] among you; therefore you [are] My witnesses, says Jehovah, that I [am] God.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:13 @ Yea, before the day [was], I [am] He; and no one delivers out of My hand; I will work, and who will reverse it?

mkjv@Isaiah:43:14 @ So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all of them [as] fugitives, and the Chaldeans, whose shout [is] in the ships.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:15 @ I [am] the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:16 @ So says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters;

mkjv@Isaiah:43:17 @ who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise; they are put out, they are snuffed out like a wick.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:18 @ Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:20 @ The beasts of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:21 @ This people [that] I formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:22 @ But you have not called on Me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of Me, O Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:23 @ You have not brought Me the lamb of your burnt offerings; nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:24 @ You have bought Me no sweet cane with silver, nor have you filled Me [with] the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:25 @ I, I [am] He who blots out your sins for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:26 @ Cause Me to remember; let us enter into judgment; declare yourself, that you may be justified.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:27 @ Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have sinned against Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:28 @ And I will defile rulers of the sanctuary, and will give Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:1 @ Yet now hear, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen;