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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 40 DRB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/40.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/40-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">DRB</a> > Isaiah 40</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/39.htm" title="Isaiah 39">◄</a> Isaiah 40 <a href="../isaiah/41.htm" title="Isaiah 41">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Douay-Rheims Bible</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Prepare the Way for the Lord<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/3.htm">Matthew 3:1-12</a>; <a href="../mark/1.htm">Mark 1:1-8</a>; <a href="../luke/3.htm">Luke 3:1-20</a>; <a href="../john/1.htm#19">John 1:19-28</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>BE comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken. </p> <a name="6" id="6"></a><p class="hdg">The Word of the Lord Stands Forever<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_peter/1.htm#22">1 Peter 1:22-25</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the held. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The grass is withered, and the dower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever. </p> <p class="hdg">Here is Your God!</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make for him? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth ? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay-Rheims Bible<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/39.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 39"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 39" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/41.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 41"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 41" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/40-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>