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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/40.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>God’s People Are Comforted</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-40-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Comfort, yes, comfort My people!”</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-1">Says your God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Speak <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-2">That her warfare is ended,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-2">That her iniquity is pardoned;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-2">For she has received from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s hand</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-2">Double for all her sins.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The voice of one crying in the wilderness:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-3">“Prepare the way of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-3">Make straight <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>in the desert</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-3">A highway for our God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Every valley shall be exalted</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-4">And every mountain and hill brought low;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-4">The crooked places shall be made <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>straight</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-4">And the rough places smooth;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The glory of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> shall be revealed,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-5">And all flesh shall see <i>it</i> together;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-5">For the mouth of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The voice said, “Cry out!”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-6">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>he said, “What shall I cry?”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-40-6">“All flesh <i>is</i> grass,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-6">And all its loveliness <i>is</i> like the flower of the field.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The grass withers, the flower fades,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-7">Because the breath of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> blows upon it;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-7">Surely the people <i>are</i> grass.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The grass withers, the flower fades,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-8">But the word of our God stands forever.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>O Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-9">You who bring good tidings,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-9">Get up into the high mountain;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-9">O Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-9">You who bring good tidings,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-9">Lift up your voice with strength,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-9">Lift <i>it</i> up, be not afraid;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-9">Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span> shall come <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>with a strong <i>hand,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-10">And His arm shall rule for Him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-10">Behold, His reward <i>is</i> with Him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-10">And His <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>work before Him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He will feed His flock like a shepherd;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-11">He will gather the lambs with His arm,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-11">And carry <i>them</i> in His bosom,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-11"><i>And</i> gently lead those who are with young.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Who has measured the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>waters in the hollow of His hand,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-12">Measured heaven with a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>span</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-12">And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-12">Weighed the mountains in scales</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-12">And the hills in a balance?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who has directed the Spirit of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-13">Or <i>as</i> His counselor has taught Him?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>With whom did He take counsel, and <i>who</i> instructed Him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-14">And taught Him in the path of justice?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-14">Who taught Him knowledge,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-14">And showed Him the way of understanding?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, the nations <i>are</i> as a drop in a bucket,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-15">And are counted as the small dust on the scales;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-15">Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Lebanon <i>is</i> not sufficient to burn,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-16">Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All nations before Him <i>are</i> as nothing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-17">And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>To whom then will you liken God?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-18">Or what likeness will you compare to Him?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The workman molds an image,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-19">The goldsmith overspreads it with gold,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-19">And the silversmith casts silver chains.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Whoever <i>is</i> too impoverished for <i>such</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>a contribution</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-20">Chooses a tree <i>that</i> will not rot;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-20">He seeks for himself a skillful workman</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-20">To prepare a carved image <i>that</i> will not totter.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Have you not known?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-21">Have you not heard?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-21">Has it not been told you from the beginning?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-21">Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><i>It is</i> He who sits above the circle of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-22">And its inhabitants <i>are</i> like grasshoppers,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-22">Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-22">And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>brings the princes to nothing;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-23">He makes the judges of the earth useless.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Scarcely shall they be planted,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-24">Scarcely shall they be sown,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-24">Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-24">When He will also blow on them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-24">And they will wither,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-24">And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“To whom then will you liken Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-25">Or <i>to whom</i> shall I be equal?” says the Holy One.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes on high,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-26">And see who has created these <i>things,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-26">Who brings out their host by number;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-26">He calls them all by name,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-26">By the greatness of His might</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-26">And the strength of <i>His</i> power;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-26">Not one is missing.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Why do you say, O Jacob,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-27">And speak, O Israel:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-27">“My way is hidden from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-27">And my just claim is passed over by my God”?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Have you not known?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-28">Have you not heard?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-28">The everlasting God, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-28">The Creator of the ends of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-28">Neither faints nor is weary.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-28">His understanding is unsearchable.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He gives power to the weak,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-29">And to <i>those who have</i> no might He increases strength.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Even the youths shall faint and be weary,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-30">And the young men shall utterly fall,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But those who wait on the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-31">Shall renew <i>their</i> strength;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-31">They shall mount up with wings like eagles,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-31">They shall run and not be weary,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-40-31">They shall walk and not faint.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18423a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:2">Isaiah 40:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>to the heart of</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18424b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:3">Isaiah 40:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX omits <i>in the desert</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18425c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:4">Isaiah 40:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>a plain</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18427d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:6">Isaiah 40:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; DSS, LXX, Vg. <i>I</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18431e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:10">Isaiah 40:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>in strength</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18431f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:10">Isaiah 40:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>recompense</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18433g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:12">Isaiah 40:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, LXX, Vg.; DSS adds <i>of the sea;</i> Tg. adds <i>of the world</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18433h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:12">Isaiah 40:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A span .5 cubit, 9 inches; or the width of His hand</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18441i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:20">Isaiah 40:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>an offering</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18444j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 40:23">Isaiah 40:23</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>reduces</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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