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Isaiah 40:6 Context: The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font> will come with might,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With His arm ruling for Him.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Behold, His reward is with Him<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And His recompense before Him. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Like a shepherd He will tend His flock,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In His arm He will gather the lambs<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And carry <i>them</i> in His bosom;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He will gently lead the nursing <i>ewes.</i> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And marked off the heavens by the span,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And weighed the mountains in a balance<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And the hills in a pair of scales? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Who has directed the Spirit of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or as His counselor has informed Him? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>With whom did He consult and <i>who</i> gave Him understanding?<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And <i>who</i> taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And informed Him of the way of understanding? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Even Lebanon is not enough to burn,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>All the nations are as nothing before Him,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>To whom then will you liken God?<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or what likeness will you compare with Him? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span><i>As for</i> the idol, a craftsman casts it,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A goldsmith plates it with gold,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And a silversmith <i>fashions</i> chains of silver. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>He who is too impoverished for <i>such</i> an offering<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Selects a tree that does not rot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To prepare an idol that will not totter. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Do you not know? Have you not heard?<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>He <i>it is</i> who reduces rulers to nothing,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Scarcely have they been planted,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Scarcely have they been sown,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But He merely blows on them, and they wither,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And the storm carries them away like stubble. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>&#147;To whom then will you liken Me<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That I would be <i>his</i> equal?&#148; says the Holy One. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes on high<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And see who has created these <i>stars,</i><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The One who leads forth their host by number,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He calls them all by name;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of <i>His</i> power,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not one <i>of them</i> is missing. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#147;My way is hidden from the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God&#148;? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Do you not know? Have you not heard?<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Everlasting God, the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the Creator of the ends of the earth<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Does not become weary or tired.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His understanding is inscrutable. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>He gives strength to the weary,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And to <i>him who</i> lacks might He increases power. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Though youths grow weary and tired,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And vigorous young men stumble badly, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Yet those who wait for the L<font size="1">ORD</font><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Will gain new strength;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They will mount up <i>with</i> wings like eagles,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They will run and not get tired,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They will walk and not become weary. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB &copy;1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/40.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/40.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/isaiah/40.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/40.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/40.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/40.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/40.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field:<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/april_18_they_shall_mount.htm">April 18. "They Shall Mount up with Wings" (Isa. Xl. 31). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"They shall mount up with wings" (Isa. xl. 31). "They shall mount up with wings as eagles," is God's preliminary; for the next promise is, "They shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint." Hours of holy exultation are necessary for hours of patient plodding, waiting and working. Nature has its springs, and so has grace. Let us rejoice in the Lord evermore, and again we say, rejoice. And let us take Him to be our continual joy, whose heart is a fountain of blessedness, and who <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/april_18_they_shall_mount.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/have_ye_not_hast_thou.htm"> 'Have Ye Not? Hast Thou Not?'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Have ye not known, have ye not heard? hath it not been told yon from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?... Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard?'--ISAIAH xl. 21 and 28. The recurrence of the same form of interrogation in these two verses is remarkable. In the first case the plural is used, in the second the singular, and we may reasonably conclude that as Israel is addressed in the latter, the nations outside the sphere illumined by Revelation are appealed <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/have_ye_not_hast_thou.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/unfailing_stabs_and_fainting_men.htm">Unfailing Stabs and Fainting Men</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'...For that He is strong in power; not one faileth.... He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength.'-- ISAIAH xl. 26 and 29. These two verses set forth two widely different operations of the divine power as exercised in two sadly different fields, the starry heavens and this weary world. They are interlocked, as it were, by the recurrence in the latter of the emphatic words of the former. The one verse says, 'He is strong in power'; the other, 'He giveth <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/unfailing_stabs_and_fainting_men.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/o_thou_that_bringest_good.htm">O Thou that Bringest Good Tidings</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'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!'--ISAIAH xl. 9. There is something very grand in these august and mysterious voices which call one to another in the opening verses of this chapter. First, the purged ear of the prophet hears the divine command to him and to his brethren--Comfort Jerusalem with the message of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/o_thou_that_bringest_good.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_shepherd_and_the_fold.htm">The Shepherd and the Fold</a><br></span><span class="snippet">... Thou hast guided them in Thy strength unto Thy holy habitation.' EXODUS XV. 13. What a grand triumphal ode! The picture of Moses and the children of Israel singing, and Miriam and the women answering: a gush of national pride and of worship! We belong to a better time, but still we can feel its grandeur. The deliverance has made the singer look forward to the end, and his confidence in the issue is confirmed. I. The guiding God: or the picture of the leading. The original is 'lead gently.' Cf. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_shepherd_and_the_fold.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_secret_of_immortal_youth.htm">The Secret of Immortal Youth</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. 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.'--ISAIAH xl. 30, 31. I remember a sunset at sea, where the bosom of each wavelet that fronted the west was aglow with fiery gold, and the back of each turned eastward was cold green; so that, looking on the one hand all was glory, and on the other <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_secret_of_immortal_youth.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_vi_salvation_published_from.htm">Salvation Published from the Mountains</a><br></span><span class="snippet">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! I t would be improper to propose an alteration, though a slight one, in the reading of a text, without bearing my testimony to the great value of our English version, which I believe, in point of simplicity, strength, and fidelity, is not likely to be excelled by a new translation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_vi_salvation_published_from.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Messiah Vol. 1</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_i_the_consolation.htm">The Consolation</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received at the LORD 's hand double for all her sins. T he particulars of the great "mystery of godliness," as enumerated by the Apostle Paul, constitute the grand and inexhaustible theme of the Gospel ministry, "God manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_i_the_consolation.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Messiah Vol. 1</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_ii_the_harbinger.htm">The Harbinger</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD , make straight in the desert a high-way for our God. 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. 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. T he general style of the prophecies is poetical. The inimitable simplicity which characterizes every <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_ii_the_harbinger.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Messiah Vol. 1</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/the_withering_work_of_the.htm">The Withering Work of the Spirit</a><br></span><span class="snippet">THE passage in Isaiah which I have just read in your hearing may be used as a very eloquent description of our mortality, and if a sermon should be preached from it upon the frailty of human nature, the brevity of life, and the certainty of death, no one could dispute the appropriateness of the text. Yet I venture to question whether such a discourse would strike the central teaching of the prophet. Something more than the decay of our material flesh is intended here; the carnal mind, the flesh in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/the_withering_work_of_the.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/this_sermon_was_originally_printed.htm">This Sermon was Originally Printed</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."--Isaiah 40:1. WHAT A SWEET TITLE: "My people!" What a cheering revelation: "Your God!" How much of meaning is couched in those two words, "My people!" Here is speciality. The whole world is God's; the heaven, even the heaven of heavens are the Lord's and he reigneth among the children of men. But he saith of a certain number, "My people." Of those whom he hath chosen, whom he hath purchased to himself, he saith what he saith not of others. While <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/this_sermon_was_originally_printed.htm" title="continued">&#8230;</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon&#8212;</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/40-6.htm">Isaiah 40:6 NIV</a> &#8226; <a href="/nlt/isaiah/40-6.htm">Isaiah 40:6 NLT</a> &#8226; <a href="/esv/isaiah/40-6.htm">Isaiah 40:6 ESV</a> &#8226; <a href="/nasb/isaiah/40-6.htm">Isaiah 40:6 NASB</a> &#8226; <a href="/kjv/isaiah/40-6.htm">Isaiah 40:6 KJV</a> &#8226; <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/40-6.htm">Isaiah 40:6 Bible Apps</a> &#8226; <a href="/isaiah/40-6.htm">Isaiah 40:6 Parallel</a> &#8226; <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/40-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 40:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 40:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/40-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 40:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 40:7" /></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/isaiah/40-6.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"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 120 x 600 new */ google_ad_slot = "2486977537"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 200 x 200 Parallel Bible */ google_ad_slot = "7676643937"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 200; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>

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