Isaiah 40:1-31 - Comfort For God's People
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says your God.
and announce to her
that her time of forced labor is over,
her iniquity
and she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.”
3 A voice of one crying out:
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
and every mountain and hill will be leveled;
the uneven ground will become smooth
and the rough places, a plain.
and all humanity
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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Another
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
when the breath
indeed, the people are grass.
but the word of our God remains forever.”
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go up on a high mountain.
Jerusalem, herald of good news,
raise your voice loudly.
Raise it, do not be afraid!
Say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
and His power establishes His rule.
His reward is with Him,
and His gifts accompany Him.
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them in the fold of His garment.
He gently leads those that are nursing.
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or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?
or who gave Him His counsel?
Who gave Him understanding
and taught Him the paths of justice?
Who taught Him knowledge
and showed Him the way of understanding?
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
or its animals enough for a burnt offering.
they are considered by Him
as nothingness and emptiness.
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What likeness will you compare Him to?
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
choosing wood that does not rot?
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not fall over.
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Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
and makes judges of the earth irrational.
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.
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or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
who created
He brings out the starry host by number;
He calls all of them by name.
Because of His great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.
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and Israel, why do you assert:
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?
Have you not heard?
Yahweh is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the whole earth.
He never grows faint or weary;
there is no limit to His understanding.
and strengthens the powerless.
and young men stumble and fall,
will renew their strength;
they will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary;
they will walk and not faint.