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Isa.|40:1|-||1a|Comfort, oh, comfort My people,Says your God.
Isa.|40:2|-|Speak unto the heart of Jerusalem,And cry out to her,
That her warfare has finished,That the penalty for her iniquity has been accepted;
For she has received from the hand of Jehovah |a|doubleFor all her sins.
Isa.|40:3|-||a|The voice of one who criesIn the wilderness: |b|Make clear
The way of |1|Jehovah;Make straight in the |2|desert
A |c|highway for our |1|God.
Isa.|40:4|-||a|Every valley will be lifted up,And every mountain and hill will be made low,
And the crooked places will become straight,And the |b|rough places, a broad plain.
Isa.|40:5|-|Then the |1a|glory of Jehovah will be revealed,And all flesh will see it together,
Because the mouth of Jehovah has |2|spoken.
Isa.|40:6|-|A voice said, Cry out.And he said, What shall I cry?
|a|All |1|flesh is |b|grassAnd all its glory is like the flower of the field;
Isa.|40:7|-|The grass withers, the flower fades,Because the breath of Jehovah blows upon it.
Surely the people are grass.
Isa.|40:8|-||a|The grass withers and the flower fades,But the |1b|word of our God will stand forever.
Isa.|40:9|-|Go up to a high mountain,O Zion, who brings |a|glad tidings;
Lift up your voice with power,O Jerusalem, who brings glad tidings;
Lift it up, Do not be afraid.Say to the cities of Judah,
|1b|Behold your God!
Isa.|40:10|-|Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty One,And His |a|arm will |1|rule for Him.
Behold, His |b|reward is with Him,And His |1|recompense before Him.
Isa.|40:11|-|He will feed His |a|flock as a |1b|Shepherd;In His arm He will gather the lambs;
In His bosom He will carry them.He will lead those who are nursing the young.
Isa.|40:12|-|Who has measured the |a|waters in the hollow of his hand,Who has calculated the extent of the heavens with a handspan,
And measured out the dust of the earth by a measure,And weighed the mountains in scales
And the hills in balances?
Isa.|40:13|-|Who has |a|directed the Spirit of Jehovah,Or who has made matters known to Him as His |b|counselor?
Isa.|40:14|-|With whom did He consult and who instructed Him,And taught Him in the path of justice,
And taught Him knowledge,And caused Him to know the way of understanding?
Isa.|40:15|-|Indeed the nations are like a |1|drop from a bucket,And are accounted as specks of dust on the scales.
Indeed He takes up the islands as very fine powder.
Isa.|40:16|-|And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,Nor are its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
Isa.|40:17|-|All the nations are as |a|nothing before Him;They are counted by Him as less than nothing and |b|vanity.
Isa.|40:18|-|To whom then will you |a|liken God?Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
Isa.|40:19|-|When the workman has cast an idol,A goldsmith overlays it with gold
Also refining chains of silver for it.
Isa.|40:20|-|He that is so impoverished that he lacks an offeringChooses wood that will not rot,
And seeks a skillful craftsman for himselfTo prepare an idol that will not be moved.
Isa.|40:21|-||a|Do you not know? Have you not heard?Has it not been told to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isa.|40:22|-|It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
Who |a|stretches out the heavens like a curtain,And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
Isa.|40:23|-|Who brings the princes to nought;He makes the judges of the earth as nothing.
Isa.|40:24|-|They have scarcely been planted;They have scarcely been sown;
Their stem has scarcely taken root in the earth;Nevertheless He blows on them and they are withered,
And the storm wind carries them away like stubble.
Isa.|40:25|-|To whom will you |1a|liken Me,That I should be compared? Says the Holy One.
Isa.|40:26|-|Lift up your eyes on high,And see who has created these |1|things,
Who brings out their host by |a|number;He calls all of them by name.
Through the greatness of His might and the strength of His powerNot one of them is missing.
Isa.|40:27|-|Why do you say, O Jacob,And why do you speak, O Israel,
My way is hidden from Jehovah,And my judgment has been passed over by my God?
Isa.|40:28|-|Do you not know,Or have you not heard,
That the eternal God, Jehovah,The |a|Creator of the ends of the earth,
Does not faint and does not become weary?There is |b|no searching out of His understanding.
Isa.|40:29|-|He gives |a|power to the faint,And to those who have no vigor He multiplies strength.
Isa.|40:30|-|Although youths will faint and become weary,And young men will collapse exhausted;
Isa.|40:31|-|Yet those who |1a|wait on Jehovah will renew their strength;They will mount up with |2|wings like |b|eagles;
They will run and will not faint;They will walk and will not become weary.
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