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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 ASV</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" /></head><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="../">ASV</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">American Standard Version</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>Comfort ye, comfort ye 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 comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand 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 that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for 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 uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.</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 one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.</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>O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their 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 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?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to 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 nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Lebanon is not sufficient 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 the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The image, a workman hath cast it , and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it'silver chains.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He that is too impoverished for'such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from 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 above 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;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh 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>Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him ? 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, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.</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 Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with 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">American Standard Version, 1901<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 /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhsh.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>