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Isaiah 40

God tells Isaiah to comfort his people: their hard service is over. A voice cries to prepare the way of the LORD. People wither like grass but God's word stands forever. The Creator never grows tired, and those who wait on the LORD will renew their strength and mount up with wings as eagles.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1God's first word to his suffering people is comfort.
  • Verse 8People fade, but God's word lasts forever.
  • Verse 31Waiting on God renews strength.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.SelectedIsaiah 40:1Ask

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.SelectedIsaiah 40:2Ask

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.SelectedIsaiah 40:3Ask

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:SelectedIsaiah 40:4Ask

And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.SelectedIsaiah 40:5Ask

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:SelectedIsaiah 40:6Ask

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.SelectedIsaiah 40:7Ask

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.SelectedIsaiah 40:8Ask

O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!SelectedIsaiah 40:9Ask

Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.SelectedIsaiah 40:10Ask

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 that are with young.SelectedIsaiah 40:11Ask

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?SelectedIsaiah 40:12Ask

Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?SelectedIsaiah 40:13Ask

With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?SelectedIsaiah 40:14Ask

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.SelectedIsaiah 40:15Ask

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.SelectedIsaiah 40:16Ask

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.SelectedIsaiah 40:17Ask

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?SelectedIsaiah 40:18Ask

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.SelectedIsaiah 40:19Ask

He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.SelectedIsaiah 40:20Ask

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?SelectedIsaiah 40:21Ask

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:SelectedIsaiah 40:22Ask

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.SelectedIsaiah 40:23Ask

Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.SelectedIsaiah 40:24Ask

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.SelectedIsaiah 40:25Ask

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.SelectedIsaiah 40:26Ask

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?SelectedIsaiah 40:27Ask

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.SelectedIsaiah 40:28Ask

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.SelectedIsaiah 40:29Ask

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:SelectedIsaiah 40:30Ask

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.SelectedIsaiah 40:31Ask

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